| Literature DB >> 14675593 |
Francesco Antonini-Canterin1, Alfredo Zuppiroli, Bogdan A Popescu, Gianluca Granata, Eugenio Cervesato, Rita Piazza, Daniela Pavan, Gian Luigi Nicolosi.
Abstract
To date, there is no proved medical therapy able to significantly reduce the degenerative process of biologic prosthetic aortic valves. It has recently been suggested that statins may reduce the progression of native aortic valve stenosis. We examined the effect of statin treatment on bioprosthetic aortic valve degeneration and found a beneficial effect of statins in slowing bioprosthetic degeneration.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 14675593 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.08.066
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Cardiol ISSN: 0002-9149 Impact factor: 2.778