Trial reportThe New England journal of medicine2016
Perioperative Rosuvastatin in Cardiac Surgery.
Trial report in The New England journal of medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 3 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 131 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Statin Therapy In Cardiac Surgery
Post-Operative Atrial Fibrillation After Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement and the Influence of Statins - Randomized Controlled Trial
Statin Therapy With Atorvastatin in Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement - a Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
131 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 311 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment of adverse effects attributed to statin therapy in product labels: a meta-analysis of double-blind randomised controlled trials.Lancet (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- Sex and gender considerations in randomized controlled trials in critical care nephrology: a meta-epidemiologic study.BMC medicine · 2025Pooled it
- 2024 EACTS/EACTAIC/EBCP Guidelines on cardiopulmonary bypass in adult cardiac surgery.British journal of anaesthesia · 2025Guideline
- Preoperative statin therapy for adults undergoing cardiac surgery.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- 2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2024Guideline
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- Effects of interventions targeting the systemic inflammatory response to cardiac surgery on clinical outcomes in adults.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Perioperative Clinical Trials in AKI.Seminars in nephrology · 2020Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Perioperative statin administration with decreased risk of postoperative atrial fibrillation, but not acute kidney injury or myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2017Pooled it
- Prevention of acute kidney injury and protection of renal function in the intensive care unit: update 2017 : Expert opinion of the Working Group on Prevention, AKI section, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.Intensive care medicine · 2017Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Perioperative statin therapy in cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Critical care (London, England) · 2016Pooled it
- The effect of clonal hematopoiesis on long-term outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
- Atrial nitroso-redox balance and refractoriness following on-pump cardiac surgery: a randomized trial of atorvastatin.Cardiovascular research · 2022Trial
- Pharmacological Prophylaxis of Atrial Fibrillation After Surgical Myocardial Revascularization.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2019Trial
- High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Concentration and Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2017Trial
- Effect on non-vascular outcomes of lowering LDL cholesterol in patients with chronic kidney disease: results from the Study of Heart and Renal Protection.BMC nephrology · 2017Trial
- Comparison of Two Central Venous Pressure Control Strategies to Prevent Atrial Fibrillation After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2017Trial
- Preoperative inflammatory indicators predict postoperative SIRS after cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass in older patients.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
71 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
backgroundComplications after cardiac surgery are common and lead to substantial increases in morbidity and mortality. Meta-analyses of small randomized trials have suggested that perioperative statin therapy can prevent some of these complications.
methodsWe randomly assigned 1922 patients in sinus rhythm who were scheduled for elective cardiac surgery to receive perioperative rosuvastatin (at a dose of 20 mg daily) or placebo. The primary outcomes were postoperative atrial fibrillation within 5 days after surgery, as assessed by Holter electrocardiographic monitoring, and myocardial injury within 120 hours after surgery, as assessed by serial measurements of the cardiac troponin I concentration. Secondary outcomes included major in-hospital adverse events, duration of stay in the hospital and intensive care unit, left ventricular and renal function, and blood biomarkers.
resultsThe concentrations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and C-reactive protein after surgery were lower in patients assigned to rosuvastatin than in those assigned to placebo (P<0.001). However, the rate of postoperative atrial fibrillation did not differ significantly between the rosuvastatin group and the placebo group (21.1% and 20.5%, respectively; odds ratio 1.04; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.84 to 1.30; P=0.72), nor did the area under the troponin I-release curve (102 ng×hour per milliliter and 100 ng×hour per milliliter, respectively; between-group difference, 1%; 95% CI, -9 to 13; P=0.80). Subgroup analyses did not indicate benefit in any category of patient. Rosuvastatin therapy did not result in beneficial effects on any of the secondary outcomes but was associated with a significant absolute (±SE) excess of 5.4±1.9 percentage points in the rate of postoperative acute kidney injury (P=0.005).
conclusionsIn this trial, perioperative statin therapy did not prevent postoperative atrial fibrillation or perioperative myocardial damage in patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. Acute kidney injury was more common with rosuvastatin. (Funded by the British Heart Foundation and others; STICS ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01573143.).
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