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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2006;29:265-266
© 2006 Elsevier Science NL

Letters to the Editor

Reply to Paraskevas

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Rm 2263, NHI Site QEII HSC, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 3A7

Received 2 November 2005; accepted 3 November 2005.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 902 473 3808; fax: +1 902 473 4448. (Email: imtiaz.ali@dal.ca).

Key Words: Statins • Outcomes • Pleitropic effects • Unstable angina

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We thank Dr. Paraskevas for his interest in our recent publications [1,2] as regards preoperative statin use and outcomes following cardiac surgery. For the benefit of Dr. Paraskevas, and more importantly, the journal readership, I would like to make the following points. Our first analysis and publication [1] looked at the entire cohort of patients in our database, including patients with stable angina and both valvular and isolated coronary artery diseases. This publication was available online on 6 November 2004. Somewhat perplexed and disappointed with the negative results . . . [Full Text of this Article]