Local Intracoronary Eptifibatide versus Mechanical Aspiration in Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Table 1

Baseline demographic data in the three groups.

	Perfusion catheter	Thrombus aspiration	Conventional PCI	𝑃 value
Gender
Male	20 (80)	22 (88)	24 (96)	0.220
Female	5 (20)	3 (12)	1 (4)
Age	49.52 ± 9.62	53.72 ± 9.33	56.24 ± 11.45	0.069
Smoking	21 (84)	20 (80)	19 (76)	0.779
Dyslipidemia	12 (48)	12 (48)	15 (60)	0.618
DM	9 (36)	8 (32)	11 (44)	0.671
HTN	8 (32)	9 (36)	10 (40)	0.841
FH	6 (24)	2 (8)	2 (8)	0.158
Vessel related infarction
LAD	12 (48)	15 (60)	16 (64)
RCA	12 (48)	10 (40)	9 (36)
LCX	1 (4)	0	0