• Filter By:
• Specialty
• Source
• Condition
• Cancer
• Infectious Disease
• Drug
• Training
• Management
• Procedure
• Therapy
• Vaccine
• Nutrition
• Country

TCT 2015: Thrombectomy no benefit in Medtronic’s Export studies
Thrombus aspiration in heart attack patients showed no benefit and raised the risk of stroke, according to a pair of studies of percutaneous coronary interventions using Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT) Export aspiration catheter, presented today at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapies conference in San Francisco. Early thrombectomy’s promise Totaled? The 10,064-patient Total study compared PCI alone and PCI with thrombectomy in ST-elevated myocardial infarctions within 12 hours of onset. The primary endpoint (a composite of cardiovascular death, recurrent myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, or class...
Source: Mass Device - October 13, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Medtronic TCT 2015 Source Type: news