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This is the first study of statin therapy effect on postoperative AF in patients undergoing isolated heart valve surgery. Despite current thought about the ineffectiveness of statin in valve surgery, but we showed that it attenuates postoperative AF compared with placebo.
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This page is a summary of: Atorvastatin Reduces the Incidence of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in Statin-Naive Patients Undergoing Isolated Heart Valve Surgery, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, December 2014, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1074248414564869.
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