%0 Journal Article
%T Requiem for routine thrombus aspiration
%A Holger Thiele
%A Steffen Desch
%A Suzanne de Waha
%A Thomas Stiermaier
%J Archive of "Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy".
%D 2017
%R 10.21037/cdt.2017.05.02
%X Interventional cardiologists share a feeling of accomplishment having just aspirated a particularly large thrombus from a coronary artery in a patient with myocardial infarction. Narcissistic personalities even call for a colleague to inspect and worship the feat. However, the satisfying visual feedback of thrombus aspiration might lead to flawed conclusions
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5509924/