Mechanical thrombectomy use is associated with decreased mortality in patients treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (9935 patients from the London Heart Attack Group)
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Modi, B.N.Jones, Daniel A.
Rathod, Krishnaraj S.
Akhtar, M.M.
Jain, Ajay K.
Singh Kalra, S.
Crake, Tom
Meier, Pascal
Astroulakis, Zoe
Dollery, C.
Ozkur, Mick
Rakhit, Roby D.
Knight, Charles
Dalby, Miles C.
Malik, Iqbal S.
Bunce, N.
Lim, Pitt
Virdi, Gurkamal K.
Whitbread, Mark
Weerackody, R.
Mathur, A.
Redwood, Simon R.
MacCarthy, Philip A.
Wragg, Andrew
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Emergency Medical ServicesThrombectomy
Myocardial Infarction
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI)
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Heart
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Introduction During Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PPCI) post ST-Segment Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), distal embolisation of thrombus may lead to failure to re-establish normal flow in the infarct-related artery. Manual thrombus aspiration has been shown to improve coronary perfusion as assessed by time to ST-segment resolution and myocardial blush grade. Evidence supporting the benefit of thrombus aspiration on clinical outcomes, however, is limited and inconsistent. We aimed to assess the impact of manual thrombectomy on mortality in patients presenting with STEMI across all PPCI centres in London over a 5 year period from 2007 until 2012. Methods This was an observational cohort study of 9935 consecutive patients with STEMI treated with PPCI between 2007 and 2012 at eight tertiary cardiac centres across London, UK. Patient's details were recorded at the time of the procedure into the British Cardiac Intervention Society (BCIS) database. Outcome was assessed by all-cause mortality. Anonymous datasets from the eight centres were merged for analysis. The primary end-point was all-cause mortality at a median follow-up of 2.0 years (IQR range 1.1 –3.1 years). Results Of the 9935 consecutive STEMI patients presenting for PPCI, 2859 had mechanical thrombectomy. Patients who had manual thrombectomy were significantly younger (average age 60.6 vs 62.9) and were less likely to have had a previous myocardial infarction (11.9% of thrombectomy patients vs 14.7% of nonthrombectomy patients). Patients receiving manual thromectomy were found to be significantly more likely to have had PPCI via a radial approach (33.1% in thrombectomy patients vs 19.9% in nonthromectomy patients). Procedural success (defined as TIMI 3 flow at the end of procedure) was found to be significantly more likely in patients receiving manual thrombectomy (89.5% vs 86.7%) (table 1). Patients with thrombectomy use had similar unadjusted all-cause mortality rates to those without thrombectomy use (12.7% vs 16.5%, p=NS) during the 5-year follow-up period (figure 1). After multivariable adjustment thrombectomy use was associated with significantly decreased mortality rates (HR: 0.82, 95% CI 0.68 to 0.9, p=0.04). Conclusion Mechanical thrombectomy use appears to be associated with improved outcome, in the form of decreased mortality, in this large observational trial. https://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/99/suppl_2/A32.2.full.pdf This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304019.46ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304019.46
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