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Preoperative Statin Therapy Is not Associated With a Decrease in the Incidence of Postoperative Atri
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Title Preoperative Statin Therapy Is not Associated With a Decrease in the Incidence of Postoperative Atri
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/571013?src=rss
Description These results are important to clinicians; they demonstrate that there may be no benefit from preoperative high-dose statins and that therapy can be interrupted in the immediate perioperative period.
American Heart Journal
Category Articles > General Surgery
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Date May 9, 2008
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