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 ...

Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Thrombectomy does not appear to reduce thrombus burden in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to ...