Tanaka Tomoko, Soejima Hirofumi, Hirai Nobutaka, Sakamoto Tomohiro, Yoshimura Michihiro, Kajiwara Ichiro, Miyao Yuji, Fujimoto Kazuteru, Miyagi Hiroo, Irie Atsushi, Nishimura Yasuharu, Ogawa Hisao
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Japan.
Am J Cardiol. 2004 Jun 15;93(12):1547-9. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.02.070.
We investigated the effect of statin therapy on T-cell activation in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention by using flow cytometric analysis. The increased frequency of interferon-gamma-positive CD4(+) T cells after percutaneous coronary intervention was significant in the group treated without statins but not in the group treated with statins.