The SYNTAX Score calculator – how we can use it in clinical practice? Review article
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Sep 30, 2010
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risk score, coronary angioplasty
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The SYNTAX Score has been designed to anticipate the risks of percutaneous revascularization in the SYNTAX trial. There were many parameters assessed in the SYNTAX Score: localization, length of lesion, calcification, presence of bifurcations and trifurcation, chronic occlusion and others.
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Wrzosek , K. (2010). The SYNTAX Score calculator – how we can use it in clinical practice?. Medycyna Faktow (J EBM), 3(3(8), 64-70. Retrieved from https://journalsmededu.pl/index.php/jebm/article/view/2578
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2. Morice M.C., Serruys P.W., Kappetein A.P. et al.: Outcomes in Patients With De Novo Left Main Disease Treated With Either Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Using Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents or Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Treatment in the Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With TAXUS and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) Trial. Circulation 2010 [online].
3. Serruys P.W., Onuma Y., Garg S. et al.: Assessment of the SYNTAX score in the Syntax study. EuroIntervention 2009; 5: 50-56.