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Meeting Coverage > ESC SYNTAX at 10 Years: Bypass vs PCI Still a Toss-Up Overall — But CABG beats stenting for important subgroups. by Nicole Lou, Staff Writer, MedPage Today September 3, 2019 ...
Given that PCI is currently a class IIa (level of evidence A) recommendation for those with an intermediate SYNTAX score (23-32), no changes are suggested here by the ESC/EACTS task force. The ...
Under the ESC/EACTS guidelines on myocardial revascularization, which were published in 2018, both PCI and CABG are currently class IA recommendations for patients with left main CAD and a low SYNTAX ...
After stratification for SYNTAX score tertiles, ... Windecker, S. et al. 2014 ESC/EACTS guidelines on myocardial revascularization. Eur. Heart J. 35, 2541–2619 (2014).
In patients with unprotected left main disease, clinical outcomes of PCI with an everolimus-eluting stent do not appear to be influenced by high anatomical complexity as defined by a SYNTAX score ...
The functional SYNTAX score can be calculated noninvasively and is comparable to calculations using invasive pressure-wire assessment, according to results of a SYNTAX II substudy. The findings ...
European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Summary: Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) should remain the "standard of care" for patients with complex coronary artery disease, concludes the SYNTAX study.
Real-world registry data show that the SYNTAX score II 2020 (SSII-2020) reliably predicts mortality but not major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) 5 years after stenting and coronary bypass ...
As previously reported by heartwire when the study was presented at the ESC 2008 meeting, ... he affirmed, "but that's why we created the SYNTAX score, ...
Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) should remain the "standard of care" for patients with complex coronary artery disease, concludes the SYNTAX study, published in the New England Journal of ...