AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—Manual thrombus aspiration provides no additional mortality reduction at 30 days compared with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) alone in patients with ST-segment ...

Outcomes using manual or aspiration thrombectomy as adjunctive therapy with primary PCI have been more encouraging. All the aspiration catheters are similar and have two lumens—one lumen for passage ...

Routine use of manual thrombus aspiration prior to PCI does not reduce microvascular obstruction compared with PCI alone in patients with subacute STEMI, according to late-breaking findings presented ...

In many patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), reperfusion of the myocardium during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is not successful. Preliminary findings have ...

Interv Cardiol. 2013;5(3):289-300. The Export catheter was also used in the larger TAPAS trial. [46] This was a single-center randomized trial that recruited 1071 patients. All the patients received ...

Thrombus aspiration during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduced mortality and re-infarction rate at one year in a randomized trial of 1,071 patients (mean age 63 years) with ST-segment ...