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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Hauptverfasser: 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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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2013
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Online Zugang: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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