Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy

S. Jolly, Sanjit; A. Cairns, John; Yusuf, Salim; Meeks, Brandi; Pogue, Janice; Rokoss, Michael; Kedev, Saško; Thabane, Lehana; Stanković, Goran; Moreno, Raúl; Gershlick, Anthony; Chowdhary, Saqib; Lavi, Shahar; Niemelä, Kari; Gabríel Steg, Philippe; Bernát, Ivo; Xu, Yawei; J. Cantor, Warren; B. Overgaard, Christopher; Naber, Christoph; N. Cheema, Asim; C. Welsh, Robert; F. Bertrand, Olivier; Avezum, Álvaro; Bhindi, Ravinay; Pancholy, Samir; V. Rao, Sunil; K. Natarajan, Madhu; M. ten Berg, Jurriën; Shestakovska, Olga; Gao, Peggy; Widimský, Petr; Džavík, Vladimír

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1415098

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Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Mar 16, 2015

Authors:

Sanjit S. Jolly

John A. Cairns

Salim Yusuf

Abstract

BACKGROUND: 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 result...

Subject

Medicine

Conventional PCI

Percutaneous coronary intervention

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