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. 2015 Sep;31(5):373–380. doi: 10.6515/ACS20150515A

Table 2. Angiographic data before and after PCI .

Group 1 (43) Group 2 (124) Group 3 (97) p-value
Pre-PCI
Pre-PCI stenosis (%) 94.31 ± 8.53a 95.78 ± 8.22a 90.16 ± 10.64b < 0.001*
Pre-PCI MLD (mm) 0.16 ± 0.25a 0.13 ± 0.27a 0.29 ± 0.35b 0.001*
Pre-PCI RLD (mm) 3.07 ± 0.52 3.12 ± 0.51 3.00 ± 0.63 0.253
Thrombus score (%) < 0.001*
score ≥ 4 88.4a 98.4b 74.3a
score ≤ 3 11.6 1.6 25.7
TIMI flow (%) < 0.001*
grade ≤ 1 69.8a 77.4a 49.5b
grade ≥ 2 30.1 22.6 50.5
Total occlusion (%) 65.1a,b 72.6a 47.4b 0.001*
Post-PCI
Post-PCI stenosis (%) 11.46 ± 7.69 12.33 ± 10.86 11.06 ± 7.78 0.594
Post-PCI MLD (mm) 2.82 ± 0.52 2.89 ± 0.57 2.96 ± 0.88 0.501
Post-PCI RLD (mm) 3.19 ± 0.52 3.28 ± 0.49 3.25 ± 0.58 0.634
Thrombus score (%) 0.478
score ≥ 2 0 2.4 6.2
score ≤ 1 100 97.6 93.8
TIMI flow (%) 0.068
grade ≤ 2 0 4.1 8.9
grade 3 100 95.9 91.1
TMPG (%) 0.001*
TMPG ≤ 2 83.7a 60.5b 79.4a
TMPG 3 16.3 39.5 20.6
Mean CTFC 15.40 ± 5.73a,b 13.45 ± 5.78a 15.84 ± 6.12b 0.008*
CTFC range (%) 0.180
< 14 46.5 60.5 45.4
14~40 52.5 38.7 53.6
> 40 0 0.8 1
Stent length 25.71 ± 6.91 25.24 ± 6.71 25.80 ± 7.31 0.814
Stent diameter 3.12 ± 0.40 3.42 ± 0.22 3.13 ± 0.37 0.320

* Group 1: nitroprusside; Group 2: thrombectomy; Group 3: control; CTFC, corrected TIMI frame count; MLD, minimal luminal diameter; PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention; RLD, reference luminal diameter; TIMI, Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction flow grade; TMPG, TIMI myocardial perfusion grade.

* Data expressed as mean ± SD or % (n) of patients.

* Different letters (a, b, c) associated with different groups indicate significant difference (at 0.05 level) by Bonferroni multiple comparison procedure.