Coronary thrombosis during acute myocardial infarction: Roberts was right!
Pathologic studies have varied with clinical belief regarding the role of acute thrombotic occlusion as the inciting event during myocardial infarction. Aspiration thrombectomy, by employing a new catheter, has been performed during myocardial infarction and confirms the pathologic findings that intracoronary thrombus is absent in a substantial number of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
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D003328:Coronary Thrombosis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000209:etiology*; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion