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Clinical trialNCT00756886CompletedInterventional

Does Atorvastatin Prevent Post Operative Atrial Fibrillation After Pulmonary Resection: A Randomized Clinical Study

SponsorUniversity of Alabama at BirminghamEnrollment73Arrhythmia
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Summary

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The purpose of this study is to determine if atorvastatin (Lipitor) reduces the occurence of abnormal heart rhythm (atrial arrhythmia) following non cardiac thoracic surgery.
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Investigators

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Atorvastatin →Placebo
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Sept 2008
Primary completion
31 May 2011
Completion
31 May 2011
Last update posted
2 Apr 2013
Registered enrollment
73
Registry id
NCT00756886
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.