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Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy.

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Jolly, SS; Cairns, JA; Yusuf, S; Meeks, B; Pogue, J; Rokoss, MJ; Kedev, S; Thabane, L; Stankovic, G; Moreno, R; Gershlick, A; Chowdhary, S ...
Published in: N Engl J Med
March 16, 2015

Background During primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), manual thrombectomy may reduce distal embolization and thus improve microvascular perfusion. Small trials have suggested that thrombectomy improves surrogate and clinical outcomes, but a larger trial has reported conflicting results. Methods We randomly assigned 10,732 patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary PCI to a strategy of routine upfront manual thrombectomy versus PCI alone. The primary outcome was a composite of death from cardiovascular causes, recurrent myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, or New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV heart failure within 180 days. The key safety outcome was stroke within 30 days. Results The primary outcome occurred in 347 of 5033 patients (6.9%) in the thrombectomy group versus 351 of 5030 patients (7.0%) in the PCI-alone group (hazard ratio in the thrombectomy group, 0.99; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.85 to 1.15; P=0.86). The rates of cardiovascular death (3.1% with thrombectomy vs. 3.5% with PCI alone; hazard ratio, 0.90; 95% CI, 0.73 to 1.12; P=0.34) and the primary outcome plus stent thrombosis or target-vessel revascularization (9.9% vs. 9.8%; hazard ratio, 1.00; 95% CI, 0.89 to 1.14; P=0.95) were also similar. Stroke within 30 days occurred in 33 patients (0.7%) in the thrombectomy group versus 16 patients (0.3%) in the PCI-alone group (hazard ratio, 2.06; 95% CI, 1.13 to 3.75; P=0.02). Conclusions In patients with STEMI who were undergoing primary PCI, routine manual thrombectomy, as compared with PCI alone, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, recurrent myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, or NYHA class IV heart failure within 180 days but was associated with an increased rate of stroke within 30 days. (Funded by Medtronic and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; TOTAL ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01149044 .).

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1533-4406

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March 16, 2015

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  • General & Internal Medicine
  • 42 Health sciences
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Jolly, S. S., Cairns, J. A., Yusuf, S., Meeks, B., Pogue, J., Rokoss, M. J., … TOTAL Investigators, . (2015). Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy. N Engl J Med. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1415098
Jolly, S. S., J. A. Cairns, S. Yusuf, B. Meeks, J. Pogue, M. J. Rokoss, S. Kedev, et al. “Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy.N Engl J Med, March 16, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1415098.
Jolly SS, Cairns JA, Yusuf S, Meeks B, Pogue J, Rokoss MJ, et al. Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy. N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 16;
Jolly, S. S., et al. “Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy.N Engl J Med, Mar. 2015. Pubmed, doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1415098.
Jolly SS, Cairns JA, Yusuf S, Meeks B, Pogue J, Rokoss MJ, Kedev S, Thabane L, Stankovic G, Moreno R, Gershlick A, Chowdhary S, Lavi S, Niemelä K, Steg PG, Bernat I, Xu Y, Cantor WJ, Overgaard CB, Naber CK, Cheema AN, Welsh RC, Bertrand OF, Avezum A, Bhindi R, Pancholy S, Rao SV, Natarajan MK, Ten Berg JM, Shestakovska O, Gao P, Widimsky P, Džavík V, TOTAL Investigators. Randomized Trial of Primary PCI with or without Routine Manual Thrombectomy. N Engl J Med. 2015 Mar 16;

Published In

N Engl J Med

DOI

EISSN

1533-4406

Publication Date

March 16, 2015

Related Subject Headings

  • General & Internal Medicine
  • 42 Health sciences
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences