Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
Keywords: atorvastatin clopidogrel percutaneous intervention periprocedural myonecrosis
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 60
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This research study plans to evaluate the use of atorvastatin in patients with coronary artery disease given immediately before PCI and whether it will decrease the amount of heart damage after PCI.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Patients do not receive Atorvastatin prior to PCI in cath lab arm 2: Atorvastatin 80mg po given prior to PCI in cath lab

Interventions: intervention 1: Atorvastatin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Atorvastatin 80mg po given one time before PCI in cath lab.

Protocol document: