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To the Editor: I do not agree with Svilaas and colleagues (Feb. 7 issue)¹ that thrombus aspiration during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients who have myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation improves clinical outcomes. In their intention-to-treat analysis, neither the incidence of death, reinfarction, or target-vessel revascularization nor a combination of these events was significantly different between the group with and the group without aspiration.

The authors' implication that aspiration thrombectomy is applicable "in a large majority" of patients who have myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation is misleading. They suggest that since material was aspirated in almost three fourths of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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