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An international survey of clinical practice during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction with a focus on aspiration thrombectomy
Juan J. Russo1, MD; Vladimír Džavík2, MD; John A. Cairns3, MD; Sunil V. Rao4, MD; Kari O. Niemelä5, MD, PhD; Madhu K. Natarajan6, MD; Olivier F. Bertrand7, MD, PhD; Markku Eskola5, MD, PhD; Robert Welsh8, MD; Pawel Maciejewski9, MD; Asim N. Cheema10, MD, PhD; Anthony Fung3, MB, BS; Warren J. Cantor1,11, MD; Shahar Lavi12, MD; Petr Widimsky13, MD, DrSc; Sanjit S. Jolly6*, MD
1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 2. University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; 3. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; 4. Duke Clinical Research Institu
Aims: Data suggest that there is a variable use of thrombectomy during primary percutaneous coronary interventions (PPCI). We sought to evaluate
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