Anesthesia and analgesia
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Oct 2013
The Association of Preoperative Statin Use and Acute Kidney Injury After Noncardiac Surgery.
Our objective was to examine the association between preoperative statin therapy and the incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing elective noncardiac surgery. ⋯ Our data did not support the hypothesis that preoperative statin therapy in doses routinely used to treat hypercholesterolemia is associated with a change in the incidence of AKI, postoperative dialysis, or hospital mortality in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery.