TY - JOUR T1 - Large thrombus burden in acute myocardial infarction: successful use of distal protection device following failure of thrombus aspiration JF - Heart JO - Heart SP - 1371 LP - 1371 DO - 10.1136/hrt.2010.201533 VL - 96 IS - 17 AU - Matthew G D Bates AU - Iain G Matthews AU - Jim A Hall Y1 - 2010/09/01 UR - http://heart.bmj.com/content/96/17/1371.abstract N2 - A 59-year-old woman with hypertension and previously well-controlled angina presented with acute central chest pain. ECG confirmed an inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Emergency coronary angiography revealed severe stenosis of the right coronary artery in the mid-vessel with large thrombus burden (figure 1). Consistent with current clinical guidelines, manual thrombus aspiration using an Export® device (Medtronic, USA) was attempted but there … ER -