Year 2015 / Volume 107 / Number 9
Letter to the Editor
PITAVASTATIN: OTHER STATIN TO BE USED AND MONITORED

576-577

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2015.3565/2014

Natalia Mora Cuadrado,

Abstract
We present a case of a 48-years-old male in whom an abnormal liver biochemistry related to the consumption of pitavastatin was detected. This was normalized after the substitution of pitavastatin by simvastatin.
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Publication history

Received: 06/10/2014

Accepted: 20/01/2015

Online First: 14/07/2015

Published: 29/08/2015

Article revision time: 99 days

Article Online First time: 281 days

Article editing time: 327 days


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