Thrombus aspiration is often performed as an adjunct to conventional primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI); however, data on the effectiveness of this procedure, and the prognostic ...

Contemporary management of coronary artery disease relies increasingly on percutaneous techniques combined with medical therapy. Although percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can be performed ...

Transtracheal aspiration was performed only if there were no abnormalities of the prothrombin time, the partial thromboplastin time and the blood platelets (Wright's stained smear). Sedation was ...

In agreement with the improved clinical outcome that was shown in the TAPAS trial, a few meta-analyses comparing thrombus aspiration and standard PPCI have confirmed lower death and MACE rates ...

MBG and STR were significantly improved in the thrombus aspiration group. In addition, manual thrombectomy was associated with a lower incidence of cardiac death and nonfatal re-infarction at 1 year.