BackgroundCardiac surgical procedures can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Recently, it has been recognized that statins might induce multiple biologic effects independent of lipid lowering that could potentially ameliorate adverse surgical outcomes. Accordingly, this study tested the central hypothesis that pretreatment with statins before cardiac surgery would reduce adverse postoperative surgical outcomes.MethodsDemographic and outcomes data were collected retrospectively for 3829 patients admitted for planned cardiac surgery between February 1994 and December 2002. Statin pretreatment occurred in 1044 patients who were comparable with non–statin-pretreated (n = 2785) patients with regard to sex, race, and age. Pri...
Statin intake before cardiac surgery is associated with favorable outcomes. We sought to analyze the...
AIM: To assess whether preoperative statin therapy is associated with the risk of postoperative infe...
Infectious complications of cardiac surgery are often severe and life threatening. Statins having bo...
BackgroundCardiac surgical procedures can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Re...
ObjectiveStatin therapy in ambulatory populations is associated with a significant reduction in adve...
Objective3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to hav...
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ObjectiveStatins are powerful lipid-lowering drugs that have been proved effective in the prevention...
ObjectivesWe sought to assess whether statins may decrease cardiac complications in patients undergo...
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the ri...
Background Performing cardiac surgery in patients with cardiovascular risk factors incorporates a st...
BACKGROUND: Several studies suggest beneficial effects of perioperative statin therapy on postoperat...
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to summarize the evidence of pre-procedural statin therapy t...
Statins feature documented benefits for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease a...
BACKGROUND: Statins reduce risk from coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, but the influence ...
Statin intake before cardiac surgery is associated with favorable outcomes. We sought to analyze the...
AIM: To assess whether preoperative statin therapy is associated with the risk of postoperative infe...
Infectious complications of cardiac surgery are often severe and life threatening. Statins having bo...
BackgroundCardiac surgical procedures can be associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Re...
ObjectiveStatin therapy in ambulatory populations is associated with a significant reduction in adve...
Objective3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to hav...
To access publisher's full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional...
ObjectiveStatins are powerful lipid-lowering drugs that have been proved effective in the prevention...
ObjectivesWe sought to assess whether statins may decrease cardiac complications in patients undergo...
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the ri...
Background Performing cardiac surgery in patients with cardiovascular risk factors incorporates a st...
BACKGROUND: Several studies suggest beneficial effects of perioperative statin therapy on postoperat...
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to summarize the evidence of pre-procedural statin therapy t...
Statins feature documented benefits for primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease a...
BACKGROUND: Statins reduce risk from coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, but the influence ...
Statin intake before cardiac surgery is associated with favorable outcomes. We sought to analyze the...
AIM: To assess whether preoperative statin therapy is associated with the risk of postoperative infe...
Infectious complications of cardiac surgery are often severe and life threatening. Statins having bo...