Association between preoperative statin use and acute kidney injury biomarkers in cardiac surgery

BACKGROUND: Acute kidney injury is a serious complication of cardiac surgery for which there remains no specific therapy. Animal data and several observational studies suggest that statins prevent acute kidney injury, but the results are not conclusive, and many studies are retrospective in nature....

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Main Authors: Molnar, Amber O., Parikh, Chirag R., Coca, Steven G., Thiessen-Philbrook, Heather, Koyner, Jay L., Shlipak, Michael G., Myers, Mary Lee, Garg, Amit X.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4068122/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24725831
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.02.033
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