In heart transplant recipients, PCSK9 inhibitors lowered LDL, stabilized coronary intimal hyperplasia and were associated with minimal adverse effects, according to data from the virtual Heart Failure Society of America Scientific Meeting.

Yasser Sammour, MD, internal medicine resident at Saint Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute, and colleagues analyzed 68 patients from Saint Luke’s who received a heart transplant from 1999 to 2019 and were prescribed a PCSK9 inhibitor after the transplant.

Read the full article about the findings: Healio: PCSK9 inhibitors safe, effective in patients with heart transplants

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