A Trial of Routine Aspiration Thrombectomy With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Versus PCI Alone in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Undergoing Primary PCI
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Acute Coronary Syndrome, ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
In brief
This is an international, randomized, controlled, parallel group study in which patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) will be allocated to one of the following: Manual aspiration thrombectomy with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) or PCI alone.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01149044
- Run by
- Population Health Research Institute
- People needed
- 10732
- Starts
- 2010-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2015-10-20
Who can join
Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients presenting with:
- Symptoms of myocardial ischemia lasting for ≥ 30 minutes AND
- Definite ECG changes indicating STEMI: ST elevation of greater than 0.1 mV in two contiguous limb leads or 0.2 mV in two contiguous precordial leads
- Referred for primary PCI
- Randomized within 12 hours of symptoms onset and prior to diagnostic angiography
- Informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- Age ≤ 18 years
- Prior coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG)
- Life expectancy less than six months due to non-cardiac condition
- Treatment with fibrinolytic therapy for qualifying index STEMI event
Where it is running
- Emory University Hospital Midtown — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center — Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Lindner Research Center at Christ Hospital — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Lehigh Valley Hospital — Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States
- Geisinger Clinic — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
- WPAHS - Allegheny General Hospital — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Northeast Clinical Trials Group — Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
- Royal North Shore Hospital — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- St. George Public Hospital — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Gold Coast Hospital — Southport, Queensland, Australia
- Medical University of Vienna — Vienna, Austria
- CHR de la Citadelle — Liège, Belgium
- Hospital Sao Lucas - PUCRS — Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre — Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Hospital Santa Isabel — Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Santa Casa de Marilia — Marília, São Paulo, Brazil
- Fundação Faculdade de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto — São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
- Hospital Mae de Deus — Porto Elegre, Brazil
- Instituto Dante Pazzanese de Cardiologia — São Paulo, Brazil
- Royal Alexandra Hospital — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- University of Alberta — Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Vancouver General Hospital — Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Victoria Heart Institute — Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Royal Columbian Hospital — Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
- Central Cardiology medical Clinic — Bakersfield, California, United States
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