Randomized trial of primary PCI with or without routine manual thrombectomy

Sanjit S Jolly¹, John A Cairns, Salim Yusuf+31

• ¹From the Population Health Research Institute and Department of Medicine, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON (S.S.J., S.Y., B.M., J.P., M.J.R., L.T., M.K.N., O.S., P.G.), University of British Columbia, Vancouver (J.A.C.), London Health Sciences Centre, Department of Medicine, London, ON (S.L.), Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, ON (W.J.C.), Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network (C.B.O., V.D.), and St. Michael's Hospital (A.N.C.), Toronto, Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, Department of Medicine, Edmonton (R.C.W.), and Quebec Heart-Lung Institute, Laval University, Quebec, QC (O.F.B.) - all in Canada; University Clinic of Cardiology, Sts. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia (S.K.); Clinical Center of Serbia and Department of Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia (G.S.); University Hospital La Paz, Madrid (R.M.); University Hospitals of Leicester, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Leicester (A.G.), and University Hospitals South Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester (S.C.) - both in the United Kingdom; Heart Center, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland (K.N.); Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, INSERM Unité 1148, Hôpital Bichat, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris (P.G.S.); University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine Pilsen, Pilsen (I.B.), and the Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Prague, University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague (P.W.) - both in the Czech Republic; the Tenth People's Hospital, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (Y.X.); Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Contilla Heart and Vascular Center, Elisabeth-Krankenhaus, Essen, Germany (C.K.N.); Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo (A.A.); Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney (R.B.); Northeast Clinical Trials Group, Scranton, PA (S.P.); Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (S.V.R.); and Department