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Preoperative statin therapy in cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of 90 000 patients [1]

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2014-01-09 16:53

According to this systematic review, preoperative statin therapy reduces early all-cause mortality, postoperative atrial fibrillation and stay on intensive care unit and in hospital. No effect on myocardial infarction or renal failure was found.

Source name: 
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
Resource link: 
http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/17.abstract [2]
Author(s): 
Elmar W. Kuhn, Oliver J. Liakopoulos, Sebastian Stange, Antje-Christin Deppe, Ingo Slottosch, Yeong-Hoon Choi, and Thorsten Wahlers
Source URL:https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/preoperative-statin-therapy-cardiac-surgery-meta-analysis-90-000-patients

Links
[1] https://www.ctsnet.org/jans/preoperative-statin-therapy-cardiac-surgery-meta-analysis-90-000-patients [2] http://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/17.abstract