Göran K. Olivecrona

TL;DR: Routine thrombus aspiration before PCI as compared with PCI alone did not reduce 30-day mortality among patients with STEMI, and results were consistent across all major prespecified subgroups, including subgroups defined according toThrombus burden and coronary flow before PCI.

TL;DR: Percutaneous coronary intervention with 'new-generation' drug-eluting stents (n-DES) to 'older generation' DES (o-DES), and bare-metal stent implantations in a real-world population is associated with a 38% lower risk of clinically meaningful restenosis, a 43% lowerrisk of definite ST, and a 23% lower chance of death compared with o-DES in this observational study from a large real- world population.

TL;DR: Routine thrombus aspiration before PCI in patients with STEMI did not reduce the rate of death from any cause or the composite of deathFrom any cause, rehospitalization for myocardial infarction, or stent thrombosis at 1 year.

TL;DR: Experts from the EAPCI and "Stent for Life" groups reviewed existing literature and provided practical guidelines on selection of patients for immediate coronary angiography (CAG), PCI strategy, concomitant antiplatelet/anticoagulation treatment, haemodynamic support and use of therapeutic hypothermia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identified seven common principles that are widely accepted as best practices for chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in CTO-PCI.