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WITHDRAWN: Preoperative statin therapy for patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative statin therapy reduces the odds of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) and shortens the patient's stay on the ICU and in the hospital. Statin pretreatment had no influence on perioperative mortality, stroke, myocardial infarction or renal failure, but only two of all included studies assessed mortality. As analysed studies included mainly individuals undergoing myocardial revascularisation, results cannot be extrapolated to patients undergoing other cardiac procedures such as heart valve or aortic surgery. PMID: 27219528 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - May 23, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kuhn EW, Slottosch I, Wahlers T, Liakopoulos OJ Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Preoperative statin therapy for patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
CONCLUSIONS: Preoperative statin therapy reduces the odds of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) and shortens the patient's stay on the ICU and in the hospital. Statin pretreatment had no influence on perioperative mortality, stroke, myocardial infarction or renal failure, but only two of all included studies assessed mortality. As analysed studies included mainly individuals undergoing myocardial revascularisation, results cannot be extrapolated to patients undergoing other cardiac procedures such as heart valve or aortic surgery. PMID: 26270008 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - August 13, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kuhn EW, Slottosch I, Wahlers T, Liakopoulos OJ Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research