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Statins and vascular surgery

Posted on September 03, 2008

Statin Therapy Reduces Perioperative Cardiac EventsExtended-release fluvastatin (Lescol) given to patients just before undergoing vascular surgery and continued for a month reduced the relative risk of suffering a heart attack by a significant 47%, Dutch researchers reported here. Perioperative extended-release fluvastatin use might be recommended in vascular surgery patients, suggested Don Poldermans, M.D., of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, at the European Society of Cardiology meeting. Treatment was started at the outpatient clinic on the day of randomization, a median 37 days ...

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