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Mortality benefits of statins has been attributed to lower lipid levels, but recent reports indicate that statins may reduce cardiovascular risk by other mechanisms, [ 6 7 ] and may also reduce cancer-related mortality [ 8 ] . Consensus is growing for statin use in all ESRD patients with atherosclerotic disease or diabetes [ 9 ] . If used this way, over 60% of all dialysis patients might be eligible for statins [ 10 ] . Despite an acceptable safety profile [ 6 11 ] , fewer than 10% of dialysis patients were prescribed statins according to USRDS and Canadian studies, [ 3 12 ] even in known coronary heart disease [ 13 ] .
MIRACL enrolled 3,086 patients within 24-96 hours (mean 63 hours) of admission for unstable angina or a non-Q-wave myocardial infarction and randomized them to 16 weeks of atorvastatin 80 mg or placebo once daily [ 5 ] . The major exclusion criteria were: total cholesterol level greater than 270 mg/dL; Q-wave myocardial infarction on admission or during the previous month; and, coronary revascularization in the months before admission, during the index hospitalization or anticipated following hospital discharge.
The PURSUIT trial examined the role of eptifibatide, a platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonist, in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes without persistent ST-segment elevation.
Controls were individuals who visited the outpatients departments of the same hospital and at the same period with the coronary patients for minor surgical operations.
Thus, aprotinin is mainly used in the clinic as anti-haemorrhagic agent in extracorporal circulation (valve replacement, coronary by-pass), for preventing postoperative haemorrhage, and as anti protease in acute pancreatitis.
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