Statins Reduce Neurologic Injury in Asymptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Patients

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Statins are neuroprotective in a variety of experimental models of cerebral injury. We sought to determine whether patients taking statins prior to asymptomatic carotid endarterectomy (CEA) exhibit a lower incidence of neurologic injury (clinical stroke and cognitive dysfunct...

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Autors principals: Heyer, Eric J., Mergeche, Joanna L., Bruce, Samuel S., Ward, Justin T., Stern, Yaakov, Anastasian, Zirka H., Quest, Donald O., Solomon, Robert A., Todd, George J., Benvenisty, Alan, McKinsey, James F., Nowygrod, Roman, Morrissey, Nicholas, Connolly, E. Sander
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: 2013
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3609915/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23404722
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000362
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