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Atorvastatin therapy may reduce the incidence of sudden cardiac death in patients with advanced chronic heart failure.

In retrospective studies, statin therapy has been related to decreased incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in heart failure. We sought to prospectively investigate a relation between atorvastatin therapy and SCD in patients with advanced chronic heart failure. Atorvastatin therapy seems to be associated with decreased incidence of SCD in patients with advanced chronic heart failure. Larger studies are ongoing to confirm this hypothesis.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

COBISS.SI-ID: 24072409

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Dual cerebral protection technique during carotid stenting.

To present a technique for internal carotid artery stenting (CAS) with dual cerebral protection in patients with high-grade stenosis caused by large, soft atherosclerotic plaques. In selected patients with large atherosclerotic plaques, a dual cerebral protection technique during CAS may be a more efficacious form of cerebral protection than a single protection device.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

COBISS.SI-ID: 22313433