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Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volume 27, Issue 5, September–October 2011, Pages 529-533
Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Editorial
From Primary to Secondary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: The Emerging Concept of Early Mechanical Reperfusion With Delayed Facilitated Stenting—When Earlier May Not Be Better

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Prior Experience With Delayed Stenting

The findings reported by Tang et al. are biologically plausible and are consistent with similar previously published work (Table 2). Cafri et al. originally studied the consequences of delaying primary PCI in a cohort of patients with angiographically visible coronary thrombus.12 In their series, delaying the stent implantation for 5 days reduced the occurrence of thrombus-related angiographic events from 27% to 4%. In the largest study to date, Di Pasquale et al. compared the efficacy of

Future Directions

Data from the available studies of delayed PCI converge toward a few key principles (Fig. 1). Once flow has been emergently re-established (preferably by mechanical means such as thrombectomy or small-size balloon catheter deployment), a stent should be implanted in the immediate STEMI-PCI setting only when no residual thrombus is visible. In the face of significant residual thrombus burden, stents should be withheld until adjunctive anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapies have been

Funding Sources

Marc Jolicoeur is supported by the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation.

Disclosures

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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