Objectives: An investigator-initiated, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center study to evaluate the efficacy of early intensive rosuvastatin therapy (rosuvastatin 40 mg for pre-PCI loading and 7 days post PCI and 10 mg daily thereafter) versus low dose conventional statin therapy (placebo for pre-PCI loading and rosuvastatin 10 mg daily after primary PCI) on infarct size measured by cardiac MRI and clinical outcomes in STEMI patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Hypothesis: The infarct size in the early high dose rosuvastatin group is smaller than that of the control patients treated with low does conventional statin therapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Enrollment
125
1\. Test group: Early intensive rosuvastatin therapy - rosuvastatin 40 mg for pre-PCI loading and 7 days post PCI and 10 mg daily thereafter 2. Control group: Conventional statin therapy - Placebo for pre-PCI loading in ER and rosuvastatin 10 mg daily after primary PCI
Severance Hospital
Seoul, South Korea
Infarct size measured by cardiac MRI
Time frame: day 3-7
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