Author/Authors :
Antonini-Canterin، نويسنده , , Francesco and Zuppiroli، نويسنده , , Alfredo and Popescu، نويسنده , , Bogdan A and Granata، نويسنده , , Gianluca and Cervesato، نويسنده , , Eugenio and Piazza، نويسنده , , Rita and Pavan، نويسنده , , Daniela and Nicolosi، نويسنده , , Gian Luigi، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
To date, there is no proved medical therapy able to significantly reduce the degenerative process of biologic prosthetic aortic valves. It has recently been suggested that statins may reduce the progression of native aortic valve stenosis. We examined the effect of statin treatment on bioprosthetic aortic valve degeneration and found a beneficial effect of statins in slowing bioprosthetic degeneration.
