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01-10-2010 | Letter
Protective role of statins against ventilator-induced lung injury
Authors:
Ilias I Siempos, Petros Kopterides, Nikolaos A Maniatis, Apostolos Armaganidis
Published in:
Critical Care
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Issue 5/2010
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Excerpt
We compliment Dr Müller and colleagues [
1] for their experiment on the protective role of simvastatin against ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). Their results are in line with those of a relevant study published recently by our research team; we also showed that pretreatment with statins (specifically atorvastatin) attenuates VILI [
2]. By synthesizing the findings of the above contributions [
1,
2], one could make several points. …