RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Nichols, Emma Hitt
T1 Thrombus Aspiration Fails to Improve Mortality following STEMI
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2013
FD SAGE Publications
VO 13
IS 15
SP 11
OP 11
DO 10.1177/155989771315004
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/15/11.1.abstract
AB Thrombus aspiration with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) did not improve mortality compared with PCI alone in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction in a large, randomized trial. This article presents data from the Thrombus Aspiration in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in Scandinavia trial [TASTE; Fröbert O et al. N Engl J Med 2013].