Patients with right coronary artery (RCA) lesions, large thrombus, or large infarct-related artery can benefit from distal protection during primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), researchers report.

"An adjunctive use of a distal protection device should be particularly considered to prevent thromboembolic procedural complications such as distal embolization and no-reflow phenomenon in this population subset," the authors suggest in the International Journal of Cardiology.

Hisashi Umeda (Toyota memorial Hospital, Toyota, Japan) and colleagues explored which groups of patients benefit from a distal protection device during ...

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