Erschienen in:
16.01.2019 | Letter to the editor - Vascular Neurosurgery - Ischemia
Statin use in patients undergoing carotid artery endarterectomy: still much to be uncovered
verfasst von:
Feng Zheng, Ming Liu, Liping Ye, Xiangping Liao, Mengran Xiao, Ziliang Zhang, Liansheng Zou, Shaochun Yang
Erschienen in:
Acta Neurochirurgica
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Ausgabe 2/2019
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Excerpt
With great interest, we read the article by Ironside N et al. entitled “Systematic review and meta-analysis of perioperative and long-term outcomes in patients receiving statin therapy before carotid endarterectomy” published in the September 2018 issue of
Acta Neurochirurgica [
1]. The authors performed a meta-analysis to investigate the effect of pre-operative statins on perioperative outcomes in patients undergoing carotid endarterectomy (CEA) for internal carotid artery stenosis. The study is of profound academic importance, and there are some points we would like to address. …