The study included 30 IHD patients with primary hypercholesterolemia (22 males and 8 females). 18 and 12 patients have received a single daily dose of fluvastatin 20 and 40 mg, respectively, in the evening for 12 weeks. The drug effect was assessed by changes in the clinical status, lipid spectrum, transport-metabolic and absorption-secretory functions of the liver. IHD patients with hypercholesterolemia were found to have dysfunction of the hepatobiliary system. Fluvastatin treatment reduced the level of total cholesterol (Ch), LDLP Ch, triglycerides. HDLP Ch levels remained unchanged. Atherogenic lipoproteins aggregation diminished. Positive changes occurred in hepatic metabolism: bilirubin concentrations lowered, serum albumin went up, absorption-secretory function of hepatocytes normalized, hepatic mono-oxidase system activated. Fluvastatin-related hepatic damage was not reported in the course of 12-month follow-up.

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