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Objective The“no-reflow‰henomenon is associated with a worse prognosis at follow-up for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Predicting and preventing no-reflow is therefore a crucial step in improving the prognosis of STEMI patients. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between aortic valve sclerosis (AVS) and myocardial no-reflow in patients with STEMI. Patients and methods Patients with a first-time diagnosis of STEMI were enrolled consecutively. No-reflow was defined as a final TIMI 3 flow with a myocardial blush of grade < temporary epicardial coronary no-reflow, and distal coronary occlusion. AVS was defined by echocardiography as thickening and calcification of the normal trileaflet aortic valve without obstruction to the left ventricular outflow. Results No-reflow developed in 41patients. In univariate analysis, age, male gender, smoking, culprit lesion Syntax score (SX score), and hypertension were significantly associated with no-reflow. Multivariate binary logistic regression analyses demonstrated age [95confidence interval (CI), 1.024096; p=0.001), AVS (95CI, 1.002100; p=0.039], culprit lesion SX score (95CI, 1.08021 p=0.008), and symptom-to-balloon time (95CI, 1.020097; p=0.002) as independent determinants of myocardial no-reflow. Conclusion AVS was significantly and independently associated with myocardial no-reflow in STEMI patients.