This is a prospective, single-center, randomized, controlled, open-label, pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of high dose statin loading in acute heart failure patients.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
50
1. adding atorvastatin 80mg, po on day (1 to 3) acute heart failure therapy 2. acute heart failure therapy
Severance Cardiovascular hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine
Seoul, South Korea
hsCRP levels
to investigate the effect of high dose statin loading on the change of serum NT-proBNP, hsCRP levels in patients with acute heart failure
Time frame: at hospital day #4
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