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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 06 > Vacuum-like device helps save heart attack victims

Vacuum-like device helps save heart attack victims

By Thomas H. Maugh II / The Bulletin
June 6, 2008

A vacuum cleaner-like device that sucks blood clots out of the arteries of heart attack victims before angioplasty reduces the death rate in the following year by nearly half, researchers are set to report today.

By physically removing clots, the device prevents fragments from breaking off,....

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