This study was supported by the grants from Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No.7082030), Funds for Excellent Talents from Beijing Government (No.20081 D0300600080) and Funds for Clinical-Basic Cooperation of Capital Medical University (No.2007JL42).
Background A growing volume of data suggests that simple manual thrombus aspiration followed by direct stenting improves myocardial reperfusion and clinical outcome compared with conventional primary PCI, but there is...