A Trial of Routine Aspiration Thrombectomy With Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) Versus PCI Alone in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI) Undergoing Primary PCI (TOTAL)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01149044

Recruitment Status : Completed

First Posted : June 23, 2010

Last Update Posted : October 20, 2015

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Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Dr. Sanjit S. Jolly, Population Health Research Institute

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Recruitment Status :	Completed
Actual Primary Completion Date :	March 2015
Actual Study Completion Date :	October 2015

Publications of Results:

Jolly SS, Cairns JA, Yusuf S, Meeks B, Pogue J, Rokoss MJ, Kedev S, Thabane L, Stankovic G, Moreno R, Gershlick A, Chowdhary S, Lavi S, Niemela K, Steg PG, Bernat I, Xu Y, Cantor WJ, Overgaard CB, Naber CK, Cheema AN, Welsh RC, Bertrand OF, Avezum A, Bhindi R, Pancholy S, Rao SV, Natarajan MK, ten Berg JM, Shestakovska O, Gao P, Widimsky P, Dzavik V; TOTAL Investigators. Randomized trial of primary PCI with or without routine manual thrombectomy. N Engl J Med. 2015 Apr 9;372(15):1389-98. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1415098. Epub 2015 Mar 16.

Other Publications:

Jolly SS, Cairns J, Yusuf S, Meeks B, Shestakovska O, Thabane L, Niemela K, Steg PG, Bertrand OF, Rao SV, Avezum A, Cantor WJ, Pancholy SB, Moreno R, Gershlick A, Bhindi R, Welsh RC, Cheema AN, Lavi S, Rokoss M, Dzavik V. Design and rationale of the TOTAL trial: a randomized trial of routine aspiration ThrOmbecTomy with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) versus PCI ALone in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary PCI. Am Heart J. 2014 Mar;167(3):315-321.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.12.002. Epub 2013 Dec 14.

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Alkhalil M, Kuzemczak M, Zhao R, Kavvouras C, Cantor WJ, Overgaard CB, Lavi S, Sharma V, Chowdhary S, Stankovic G, Kedev S, Bernat I, Bhindi R, Sheth T, Niemela K, Jolly SS, Dzavik V. Prognostic Role of Residual Thrombus Burden Following Thrombectomy: Insights From the TOTAL Trial. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 May;15(5):e011336. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011336. Epub 2022 May 17.

Moxham R, Dzavik V, Cairns J, Natarajan MK, Bainey KR, Akl E, Tsang MB, Lavi S, Cantor WJ, Madan M, Liu YY, Jolly SS. Association of Thrombus Aspiration With Time and Mortality Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Post Hoc Analysis of the Randomized TOTAL Trial. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e213505. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.3505.

Jolly SS, Cairns JA, Lavi S, Cantor WJ, Bernat I, Cheema AN, Moreno R, Kedev S, Stankovic G, Rao SV, Meeks B, Chowdhary S, Gao P, Sibbald M, Velianou JL, Mehta SR, Tsang M, Sheth T, Dzavik V; TOTAL Investigators. Thrombus Aspiration in Patients With High Thrombus Burden in the TOTAL Trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Oct 2;72(14):1589-1596. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2018.07.047.

Sheth TN, Kajander OA, Lavi S, Bhindi R, Cantor WJ, Cheema AN, Stankovic G, Niemela K, Natarajan MK, Shestakovska O, Tittarelli R, Meeks B, Jolly SS. Optical Coherence Tomography-Guided Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Prospective Propensity-Matched Cohort of the Thrombectomy Versus Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Alone Trial. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Apr;9(4):e003414. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.115.003414.

Jolly SS, Cairns JA, Yusuf S, Rokoss MJ, Gao P, Meeks B, Kedev S, Stankovic G, Moreno R, Gershlick A, Chowdhary S, Lavi S, Niemela K, Bernat I, Cantor WJ, Cheema AN, Steg PG, Welsh RC, Sheth T, Bertrand OF, Avezum A, Bhindi R, Natarajan MK, Horak D, Leung RC, Kassam S, Rao SV, El-Omar M, Mehta SR, Velianou JL, Pancholy S, Dzavik V; TOTAL Investigators. Outcomes after thrombus aspiration for ST elevation myocardial infarction: 1-year follow-up of the prospective randomised TOTAL trial. Lancet. 2016 Jan 9;387(10014):127-35. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00448-1. Epub 2015 Oct 22.

Jolly SS, Cairns JA, Yusuf S, Meeks B, Gao P, Hart RG, Kedev S, Stankovic G, Moreno R, Horak D, Kassam S, Rokoss MJ, Leung RC, El-Omar M, Romppanen HO, Alazzoni A, Alak A, Fung A, Alexopoulos D, Schwalm JD, Valettas N, Dzavik V; TOTAL Investigators. Stroke in the TOTAL trial: a randomized trial of routine thrombectomy vs. percutaneous coronary intervention alone in ST elevation myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J. 2015 Sep 14;36(35):2364-72. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv296. Epub 2015 Jun 29.

Williams PD, Mamas MA, Fraser DG. A coronary artery cast. Can J Cardiol. 2011 Nov-Dec;27(6):871.e5-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2011.08.108. Epub 2011 Oct 14. No abstract available.

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