December 21, 2011Thrombosis and Haemostasis
SYNTAX, STS and EuroSCORE – How good are they for risk estimation in atherosclerotic heart disease?
Why the study?
How good are the SYNTAX, STS, and EuroSCORE for risk estimation in atherosclerotic heart disease?
Population
Cardiac patients with atherosclerotic heart disease undergoing surgical or nonsurgical intervention
Design
Review
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Discussion
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Implication
Hypothesis-generating for hybrid risk models in coronary interventions; leaves open prospective validation before clinical use.
Structured PICO
How good are the SYNTAX, STS, and EuroSCORE for risk estimation in atherosclerotic heart disease?
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Population
Cardiac patients with atherosclerotic heart disease undergoing surgical or nonsurgical intervention
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Intervention
Risk estimation using the SYNTAX score, STS score, and EuroSCORE
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Outcome
Prediction of adverse outcomes and mortality
Combining clinical risk factors from the EuroSCORE with anatomical complexity from the SYNTAX score may improve risk prediction for patients undergoing coronary interventions.
Cite This Study
Winkler et al. (2011) studied this question.