Jolly and colleagues randomly assigned 10,732 patients with STEMI undergoing primary PCI to routine upfront manual thrombectomy in conjunction with PCI, or PCI alone. Approximately 7% of patients from ...
Performing manual thrombectomy routinely prior to primary PCI in STEMI patients does not reduce the composite of CV death, HF, recurrent MI or cardiogenic shock at 1 year, according to data from the ...