Calcium antagonists reduce cardiovascular complications after cardiac surgery
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Calcium antagonists reduce cardiovascular complications after cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis.
OBJECTIVES We sought to determine the efficacy of calcium antagonists (CAs) in reducing death, myocardial infarction (MI), ischemia, and supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (SVT) after cardiac surgery. BACKGROUND Calcium antagonists may reduce complications after cardiac surgery-namely, death, MI, and renal failure. However, they are underused, possibly due to the results from previous observati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(03)00191-8