To Aspirate or Not to Aspirate: That Is the Question

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¹ Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: goran.olivecrona@gmail.com.

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Hans-Henrik Tilsted et al. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2015.

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. 2015 Apr 20;8(4):585-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2015.01.014.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet/Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: goran.olivecrona@gmail.com.

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Keywords: myocardial infarction; percutaneous coronary intervention; thrombus aspiration.

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