Save your blushes and stop routine thrombus aspiration during primary PCI

European Heart Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 24, 2016, Pages 1899-1901

  Ong, Paul Jau Lueng ^a   Wijns, William C ^b,c  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

^c Saolta University Health Care Group   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLIZATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CORE LABORATORY; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL BLUSH; MYOCARDIAL BLUSH GRADE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBECTOMY DEVICE; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TIMI FLOW GRADE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; HEART INFARCTION;

CORONARY THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION;

EID: 84976502609     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw198     Document Type: Editorial

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