Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Pilot Trial of Peritoneal Hypothermia in Patients With ST-Segment-- Elevation Myocardial Infarction [Myocardial Infarction]

Conclusions— Peritoneal hypothermia is feasible and achieves rapid cooling with only a modest increase in treatment times in the setting of ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction. However, in the present randomized trial, peritoneal hypothermia was associated with an increased rate of adverse events without reducing infarct size. Clinical Trial Registration— URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01655433.

http://circinterventions.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/short/8/3/e001965?rss=1

Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions - February 19, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Nichol, G., Strickland, W., Shavelle, D., Maehara, A., Ben-Yehuda, O., Genereux, P., Dressler, O., Parvataneni, R., Nichols, M., McPherson, J., Barbeau, G., Laddu, A., Elrod, J. A., Tully, G. W., Ivanhoe, R., Stone, G. W., for the VELOCITY Investigators Tags: Catheter-based coronary interventions: stents, Other Treatment Myocardial Infarction Source Type: research