Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Intracoronary Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors Improve Short-Term Mortality and Reinfarction in East Asian Patients with ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction after Thrombus Aspiration: A Meta-Analysis

Table 1

Characteristics of the trials included in the meta-analysis.


Study	Year	Location	Study design	Patients included, PPCI or not	MACE	Mortality reported	Follow up (months)	TA catheter	Study quality

Choi	2009	Republic of Korea	Retrospective	STEMI,PPCI	mortality	Yes	18	Export	Fair
Liu XY	2013	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, TLR	Yes	12	ZEEK	Good
Liu CP	2013	Taiwan	Randomized	STEMI,non-PPCI	death, reinfarction, TLR, and stroke	Yes	6	Thrombuster II	Good
Chen CW	2013	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	cardiac death, non-fatal MI, unstable angina and new-CHF	No	1	NR	Fair
Dong PS	2011	Mainland China	Prospective	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, TLR, and new-CHF	Yes	1	ZEEK	Fair
Guo YS	2011	Mainland China	Prospective	STEMI,PPCI	Cardiac death, reinfarction and acute HF	Yes	In hospital	GOODMAN	Fair
Huang S	2013	Mainland China	Prospective	STEMI,PPCI	mortality	Yes	In hospital	ZEEK	Fair
Huang WG	2010	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, TLR,	Yes	In hospital	ZEEK	Fair
Jia XG	2009	Mainland China	Prospective	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, subacute stent thrombosis	Yes	In hospital	ZEEK	Fair
Zhou DH	2012	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	NR	No	3	Driver C.E.	Fair
Liu W	2012	Mainland China	Prospective	STEMI,PPCI	NR	No	In hospital	Driver C.E.	Fair
Pan G	2011	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, and new-CHF	Yes	In hospital	Driver C.E.	Fair
Wang XM	2012	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, TLR,	Yes	1	NR	Fair
Yang WM	2014	Mainland China	Randomized	STEMI,PPCI	death, reinfarction, TLR, and new-CHF	Yes	In hospital	EXPORT	Fair

PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention; PPCI: primary PCI; STEMI: ST-elevation myocardial infarction; MACE: major adverse cardiac events; TA: thrombus aspiration; CHF: congestive heart failure; TLR: target lesion revascularization; NR: not reported.