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Review
. 2016 Apr;5(2):249-257.
doi: 10.1016/j.iccl.2015.12.009. Epub 2016 Feb 10.

Risk Stratification for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Davide Capodanno  1
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Risk Stratification for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Davide Capodanno. Interv Cardiol Clin. 2016 Apr.

Abstract

The Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) score is a semiquantitative angiographic score developed to prospectively characterize the disease complexity of the coronary vasculature. With more than 50 validation studies, the SYNTAX score is the most-studied risk model in the setting of percutaneous coronary intervention. In this article, the evolutionary journey of the SYNTAX score is reviewed, with emphasis on its sequential modifications and adaptations, now culminating in the development and validation of the SYNTAX score II.

Keywords: Percutaneous coronary intervention; Risk scores; Risk stratification; SYNTAX score.

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