Cardiac care for older adults: time for a new paradigm

DE Forman, MW Rich, KP Alexander, S Zieman… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - jacc.org
Recent decades have witnessed striking growth in the number of older adults both in the
United States and throughout much of the world, largely due to improved public health …

Prediction of coronary risk by SYNTAX and derived scores: synergy between percutaneous coronary intervention with taxus and cardiac surgery

M Yadav, T Palmerini, A Caixeta, MV Madhavan… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
The introduction of the SYNTAX (Synergy Between PCI With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery)
score has prompted a renewed interest for angiographic risk stratification in patients …

Anatomical and clinical characteristics to guide decision making between coronary artery bypass surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention for individual …

V Farooq, D Van Klaveren, EW Steyerberg, E Meliga… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background The anatomical SYNTAX score is advocated in European and US guidelines as
an instrument to help clinicians decide the optimum revascularisation method in patients …

Prognostic implications of coronary calcification in patients with obstructive coronary artery disease treated by percutaneous coronary intervention: a patient-level …

CV Bourantas, YJ Zhang, S Garg, J Iqbal, M Valgimigli… - Heart, 2014 - heart.bmj.com
Objective To investigate the long-term prognostic implications of coronary calcification in
patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for obstructive coronary artery …

Functional SYNTAX score for risk assessment in multivessel coronary artery disease

CW Nam, F Mangiacapra, R Entjes, IS Chung… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study was aimed at investigating whether a fractional flow reserve (FFR)-
guided SYNTAX score (SS), termed “functional SYNTAX score”(FSS), would predict clinical …

Prognostic value of the SYNTAX score in patients with acute coronary syndromes undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: analysis from the ACUITY (Acute …

T Palmerini, P Genereux, A Caixeta, E Cristea… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - jacc.org
Objectives: We sought to investigate the predictive value of the SYNTAX (Synergy Between
PCI With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery) score (SS) for risk assessment of 1-year clinical …

Development and validation of a prediction rule for recurrent vascular events based on a cohort study of patients with arterial disease: the SMART risk score

JAN Dorresteijn, FLJ Visseren, AMJ Wassink… - Heart, 2013 - heart.bmj.com
Objectives To enable risk stratification of patients with various types of arterial disease by the
development and validation of models for prediction of recurrent vascular event risk based …

SYNTAX score and Clinical SYNTAX score as predictors of very long-term clinical outcomes in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions: a substudy …

C Girasis, S Garg, L Räber, G Sarno… - European heart …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Aims To investigate the ability of SYNTAX score and Clinical SYNTAX score (CSS) to predict
very long-term outcomes in an all-comers population receiving drug-eluting stents. Methods …

Prediction of 1-year clinical outcomes using the SYNTAX score in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous …

S Garg, G Sarno, PW Serruys, AE Rodriguez… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2011 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the impact of SYNTAX score (SXscore), and
compare its performance in isolation and combination with the PAMI (The Primary …

Combined anatomical and clinical factors for the long-term risk stratification of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: the Logistic Clinical SYNTAX …

V Farooq, Y Vergouwe, L Räber, P Vranckx… - European heart …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The SYNTAX score (SXscore), an anatomical-based scoring tool
reflecting the complexity of coronary anatomy, has established itself as an important long …