Efficacy and safety of routine aspiration thrombectomy during primary PCI for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis of large randomized controlled trials

Background: Recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have questioned the clinical efficacy and safety of routine aspiration thrombectomy (AT) during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). A systematic synthesis of these randomized data is hence very timely to address this clinical equip...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Marmagkiolis, Abdul Hakeem, Mehmet Cilingiroglu, Dmitriy N. Feldman, Konstantinos Charitakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-05-01
Series:Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1109966617301045