European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on January 7, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(4):417-418; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi086
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Statins and percutaneous coronary intervention: reply
Laboratory of Interventional Cardiology
and Department of Cardiology
Clinica Mediterranea
Via Orazio 2, 80122 Naples, Italy and
Laboratory of Interventional Cardiology
Vita e Salute University School of
Medicine San Raffaele Hospital
Milan, Italy
Tel: +39 081 7259764
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E-mail address: briguori.carlo@hsr.it
Laboratory of Interventional Cardiology
Vita e Salute University School of
Medicine San Raffaele Hospital
Milan, Italy
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Both our study1 and that by Pasceri et al.2 support the beneficial role of pre-procedural statin administration on lowering the rate of peri-procedural myocardial infarction.
The purpose of our study was to assess in a randomized fashion whether statin treatment,