Patients undergoing vascular surgery are at increased risk for perioperative cardiovascular (CV) complications. Our goal was to determine the effect of preoperative statin therapy on perioperative cardiac and vascular outcomes, and long-term survival in patients undergoing infrainguinal vascular bypass surgery.
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC5084, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. pward@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
