%0 Journal Article
%T Thrombus aspiration in primary percutaneous coronary intervention: still a valid option with improved technique in selected patients!
%A Alessandro Sticchi
%A Emanuele Barbato
%A Fabio Mangiacapra
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2017
%X Thrombus aspiration during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) has been used to improve myocardial perfusion through a reduction of the thrombotic burden eventually resulting into better clinical outcomes (1,2). After the initial enthusiasm derived from the mortality reduction shown in early randomized and observational studies (3-7), disappointing results have been yielded in more recent larger scale trials testing the routine use of thrombus aspiration in pPCI (8-12). As a consequence, this technique has lost its initial appeal such that it is currently often neglected or even considered as a useless hassle by the interventional cardiologists
%U http://cdt.amegroups.com/article/view/15192/15387