Usefulness of the SYNTAX Score for Predicting Clinical Outcome After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease | Zendy

Davide Capodanno | Zendy; M. Salvo | Zendy; Glauco Cincotta | Zendy; Marco Miano | Zendy; Claudia Tamburino | Zendy; Corrado Tamburino | Zendy

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Usefulness of the SYNTAX Score for Predicting Clinical Outcome After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

Author(s) -

Davide Capodanno,

M. Salvo,

Glauco Cincotta,

Marco Miano,

Claudia Tamburino,

Corrado Tamburino

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

circulation cardiovascular interventions

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.621

H-Index - 95

eISSN - 1941-7632

pISSN - 1941-7640

DOI - 10.1161/circinterventions.108.847137

Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous coronary intervention , left main coronary artery disease , cardiology , coronary artery disease , outcome (game theory) , myocardial infarction , mathematics , mathematical economics

The SYNTAX score (SXscore) has been proposed recently as a valuable tool to characterize the coronary vasculature prospectively with respect to the number of lesions and their functional impact, location, and complexity. However, the prognostic value of SXscores in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention of the left main artery has not been validated.

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