September 8, 2009(Barcelona, Spain) – Thrombectomy using manual but not mechanical thrombus-aspirating catheters significantly improved one-year survival in STEMI patients undergoing PCI in a pooled ...

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 ...

During primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), manual thrombectomy may reduce distal embolization and thus improve microvascular perfusion. Small trials have suggested that thrombectomy ...

SAN DIEGO, CA—Performing manual thrombectomy routinely prior to primary PCI does not improve 180-day outcomes among patients with STEMI over PCI alone, according to results from the TOTAL trial. In ...

To the Editor: A typical feature of recent trials on thrombus aspiration is the binary approach, with either thrombectomy or standard percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) considered to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Manual thrombectomy with primary PCI did not benefit patients with STEMI and was associated with an ...