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Preprocedural statin use is associated with a reduced hazard of postprocedural myonecrosis in patients undergoing
Hitinder S Gurm1, Yuri Breitbart, Deepak Vivekanathan
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA. hgurm@med.umich.edu
Abstract:
Incidence of myonecrosis in patients undergoing rotational atherectomy was evaluated by preprocedural statin use. The incidence of any myonecrosis (24.1% vs 52.3%, P < .001) or significant myonecrosis (7.5% vs 21.8%, P < .001) was significantly lower among patients pretreated with statins. This difference remained significant after multivariable and propensity adjustment.
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