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JACC-CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS
Volume 9, Issue 19, Pages 2002-2011Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2016.06.050
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intracoronary thrombus; optical coherence tomography; percutaneous coronary intervention; ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate if residual thrombus burden after aspiration thrombectomy affects the outcomes of primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). BACKGROUND Recent studies failed to show clinical benefit of aspiration thrombectomy in STEMI patients. This might be due to insufficient removal of thrombus at the culprit lesion. METHODS A total of 109 STEMI patients who underwent aspiration thrombectomy followed by stenting within 24 h from symptom onset were included. Optical coherence tomography was performed after thrombectomy to measure residual thrombus burden. Patients were divided into tertiles based on the amount of residual thrombus and the outcomes were compared. RESULTS Myocardial no reflow, defined as TIMI (Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction) flow grade of <= 2 and/or myocardial blush grade of <= 1 after stenting, was more observed frequently in patients in the highest tertile compared with those in the lowest tertile (44.4% vs. 16.7%; p = 0.001). Patients in the highest tertile also had greater myocardial damage measured by creatine kinase MB compared with those in the lowest tertile (p = 0.002). CONCLUSIONS STEMI patients with greater residual thrombus burden after aspiration thrombectomy had worse microvascular dysfunction and greater myocardial damage compared with those with smaller residual thrombus burden. (C) 2016 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation.
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