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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009;138:256-257
© 2009 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

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Minoru Tabata, MD, MPH

Tokyo, Japan

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We appreciate the comments from Mascitelli and colleagues. We have shown that preoperative statin use is associated with lower operative mortality in cardiac surgical patients without coronary artery disease.1Go As they pointed out and as we described . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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