Cardiac death and reinfarction after 1 year in the Thrombus Aspiration during Percutaneous coronary intervention in Acute myocardial infarction Study (TAPAS): a 1-year follow-up study.

By P. Vlaar, T. Svilaas, I. C. van der Horst, G. Diercks, M. Fokkema, B. D. de Smet, A. van den Heuvel, R. Anthonio, G. Jessurun, E. Tan and 2 more. The Lancet, 2008

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Guidelines on myocardial revascularization. (2010, methodology): “IIa A [204 208]”
• Management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with persistent ST-segment elevation: the Task Force on the Management of ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction of the European Society of Cardiology. (2008, background): “Formal meta-analyses of these studies show heterogeneous results with no overall clinical benefit despite a lower rate of distal embolization angiographically.58 In a recent randomized study in 1071 patients, aspiration of thrombus prior to PCI was associated with improved tissue reperfusion [myocar”
• Myocardial no-reflow in humans. (2009, neutral): “mprovement of myocardial perfusion by manual thrombus spiration translated in a strikingly lower mortality at 2-month follow-up (77).”
• ESC Guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting with ST-segment elevation. (2012, neutral): “One-year followup from that trial found a reduction in mortality with thrombus aspiration as a secondary endpoint.(84) A meta-analysis of TAPAS and several smaller trials found similar results.”
• The pathophysiology of acute myocardial infarction and strategies of protection beyond reperfusion: a continual challenge. (2016, methodology): “MACE at 30 days Ø Vlaar et al.(149) TAPAS 536/535 Aspiration thrombectomy Myocardial blush grade * Infarct size (CK) n.”