Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy
Author(s) -
Sanjit S. Jolly,
John A. Cairns,
Salim Yusuf,
Brandi Meeks,
Janice Pogue,
Michael Rokoss,
Saško Kedev,
Lehana Thabane,
Goran Stanković,
Raúl Moreno,
Anthony Gershlick,
Saqib Chowdhary,
Shahar Lavi,
Kari Niemelä,
Philippe Gabríel Steg,
Ivo Bernát,
Yawei Xu,
Warren J. Cantor,
Christopher B. Overgaard,
Christoph Naber,
Asim N. Cheema,
Robert C. Welsh,
Olivier F. Bertrand,
Álvaro Avezum,
Ravinay Bhindi,
Samir Pancholy,
Sunil V. Rao,
Madhu K. Natarajan,
Jurriën M. ten Berg,
Olga Shestakovska,
Peggy Gao,
Petr Widimský,
Vladimír Džavík
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1415098
Subject(s) - medicine , conventional pci , percutaneous coronary intervention , randomized controlled trial , clinical trial , percutaneous , perfusion , surgery , cardiology , myocardial infarction
During primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), manual thrombectomy may reduce distal embolization and thus improve microvascular perfusion. Small trials have suggested that thrombectomy improves surrogate and clinical outcomes, but a larger trial has reported conflicting results.
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