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Ann Thorac Surg 2009;87:1858. doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.049
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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

Invited Commentary

James S. Gammie, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland Medical Center N4W94, 22 S Green St, Baltimore, MD 21201

(Email: jgammie@smail.umaryland.edu).

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Miceli and colleagues [1] examined the association between preoperative statin use and the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) in a large retrospective observational study and found, in contrast to most previous reports, that statin use was associated with a reduction in the incidence of postoperative AF. They used propensity-matching techniques to identify a subset of statin-treated patients who were comparable with untreated patients.

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