Jolly and colleagues randomly assigned 10,732 patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI to routine upfront manual thrombectomy in conjunction with PCI, or PCI alone. Approximately 7% of patients from ...

Performing manual aspiration thrombectomy during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces major adverse cardiac events (MACE) including mortality, but the same benefit is not seen with ...

Manual thrombus aspiration during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) streamlines procedures, resulting in more direct stenting, less postdilatation, and larger and fewer stents compared ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The increased stroke risk associated with manual thrombectomy during primary PCI detected in the TOTAL trial was ...

London, UK - Results of the PCI-CURE study show pretreatment followed by long-term therapy with clopidogrel reduced the occurrence of major cardiovascular events among patients with non-ST-elevation ...