OBJECTIVE: To provide an overview of the research steps that need to follow the
development of diagnostic or prognostic prediction rules. These steps include validity …

The validity of the cardiac surgical scoring system, EuroSCORE, has been assessed by
several individual cardiac centres within and outside Europe. We chose to assess the …

The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (Euro-SCORE) identifies a
number of risk factors which help to predict mortality from cardiac surgery. 1 The predicted …

The Japanese Circulation Society (JCS) published the “Guidelines for elective percutaneous
coronary intervention [PCI] in patients with stable coronary disease” in 2000. In 2006 …

Objectives: The aim of this work was to study the feasibility, safety, efficacy, and durability of
percutaneous heart valve (PHV) implantation in the aortic position. Background: We …

The European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation (EuroSCORE) is a commonly
used risk score for operative mortality following cardiac surgery. We aimed to conduct a …

2 Methods The ASCTS database project has prospectively collected data on patients
undergoing cardiac surgery at all six publicly funded cardiac surgical units in the state of …

Background—Leukocytes in allogeneic blood transfusions are believed to be the cause of
immunomodulatory events. A few trials on leukocyte removal from transfusions in cardiac …

BACKGROUND: The European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation
(EuroSCORE) was developed to predict immediate outcomes after adult cardiac operations …

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare additive and logistic European System
for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE), EuroSCORE II and the Society of …