Clinical Study
Efficacy and Mechanism of Preoperative Simvastatin Therapy on Myocardial Protection after Extracorporeal Circulation
Figure 1
At all postoperative time points, the indices of cardiac muscle injury, CK-MB and cTnT, were significantly lower in the simvastatin group than in the control group. versus control group. Net increases in serum IL-6, IL-8, and TNF- in the simvastatin group and control group between 6 h before and 6 h after operation.
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