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September 1, 2013New England Journal of Medicine1,155 citationsOpen Access

Thrombus Aspiration during ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

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OFOle FröbertBLBo LagerqvistGOGöran Olivecrona

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Does routine thrombus aspiration before PCI reduce 30-day mortality in patients with STEMI?

P
Population
Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)
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Intervention
Routine thrombus aspiration before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)
C
Comparator
PCI alone
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Outcome
30-day mortalityhard clinical

Routine thrombus aspiration prior to PCI does not offer a 30-day mortality benefit for patients presenting with STEMI.

Abstract

Routine thrombus aspiration before PCI as compared with PCI alone did not reduce 30-day mortality among patients with STEMI. (Funded by the Swedish Research Council and others; ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01093404.).

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Fröbert et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d48a6595972252e7dc759chttps://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1308789
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