Table 3.

The characteristics of STEMI patients according to their thrombus burden.

	Low thrombus burden (grade 0–3) n=45	High thrombus burden (grade 4–5) n=52	p value
Age (years)	58.9 ± 7.3	59.7 ± 9.1	0.641
Sex (male)	28 (%62.2)	33 (%63.5)	0. 900
Hypertension	28 (%62.2)	38 (%73.1)	0.253
Diabetes mellitus	8 (%17.8)	12 (%23.1)	0.520
Hyperlipidemia	18 (%40.0)	23 (%44.2)	0.674
Smoking	24 (%53.3)	27 (%51.9)	0.890
LVEF (%)	53.5 ± 7.7	50.4 ± 8.2	0.066
Serum creatinine (mg/dL)	0.9 ± 0.4	0.9 ± 0.4	0.392
Peak CK-MB level (IU/L)	111.2 ± 67.1	141.4 ± 79.4	0.045
CRP (mg/L)	9.8 ± 4.1	12.2 ± 5.8	0.022
Serum chemerin level (ng/ml)	451.3 ± 101.2	581.5 ± 173.7	<0.001
Angiographic characteristics
Culprit lesion
LAD	9 (20.0%)	12 (23.1%)
Cx	16 (35.6%)	21 (40.4%)	0.731
RCA	20 (44.4%)	19 (36.5%)
TIMI thrombus grade	2.3 ± 0.8	4.4 ± 0.5	<0.001
TIMI flow before primary PCI	0.3 ± 0.7	0.3 ± 0.6	0.401
TIMI flow after primary PCI	2.7 ± 0.5	2.4 ± 0.7	0.022
Post-PCI TIMI frame count	31.3 ± 10.8	37.1 ± 14.6	0.031
Gensini score	58.3 ± 14.5	60.1 ± 15.7	0.549