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211 consecutive STEMI patients undergoing percutaneous intracoronary thrombectomy during angioplasty within…
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Variable thrombus age in STEMI suggests pre-symptomatic instability; leaves open mechanisms and preventive timing.
Histological analysis reveals that in at least 50% of acute STEMI patients, coronary thrombi are days or weeks old, suggesting plaque instability precedes symptom onset by a variable period.
Rittersma et al. (2005) studied this question.
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