
Nemanja Mili?evi?
Interventional Cardiologist, Bosnia and HerzegovinaTitle: Thrombus aspiration during primary percutaneous coronary intervention – Where are we now?
Abstract
When it comes to thrombus
aspiration during PPCI, which belonged to Class IIa, recently published
studies, the TOTAL study12 on more than 10,000 patients and the TASTE study13
on more than 7,000 patients, did not show a benefit from routine
thromboaspiration, which according to the current guide for STEMI does not recommended
(Class III). Thrombus aspiration in acute myocardial infarction, considering
the results of large randomized studies, is not recommended as a routine
method. It is necessary to define new indications for thromboaspiration in
myocardial infarction and conduct appropriate studies in this direction. The
aim of this paper is to present a patient in whom, after primary balloon
angioplasty, successful aspiration of a large thrombus mass from the right
coronary artery was performed, while thinking about which patients this method
would benefit from.
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