Pre-Procedural Atorvastatin Mobilizes Endothelial Progenitor Cells: Clues to the Salutary Effects of Statins on Healing of Stented Human Arteries - Concepedia

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Pre-Procedural Atorvastatin Mobilizes Endothelial Progenitor Cells: Clues to the Salutary Effects of Statins on Healing of Stented Human Arteries

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2011

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Benjamin Hibbert, Xiaoli Ma, Ali Pourdjabbar, Trevor Simard, Katey J. Rayner, Jiangfeng Sun, Yong‐Xiang Chen, L G Filion, Edward R. O’Brien

Abstract

High dose Atorvastatin therapy pre-PCI improves EPC number and CAC number and function in humans which may in part explain the benefit in clinical outcomes seen in patients undergoing coronary interventions.

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