Efficacy and Mechanism of Preoperative Simvastatin Therapy on Myocardial Protection after Extracorporeal Circulation

Background. Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) causes systemic inflammatory response and ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury. Objective. To investigate the effect and mechanism of simvastatin on myocardial injury in cardiac valve surgery with CPB. Methods. One hundred thirty patients were randomly assigned t...

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Main Authors: Ping Hua, Jianyang Liu, Jun Tao, Rongjun Zou, Xifeng Lin, Dingwen Zhang, Songran Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2017-01-01
Series:BioMed Research International
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/6082430