The SYNTAX score: Usefulness, limitations, and future directions

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 511-512

  Chakrabarti, Anjan K ^a   Gibson, C Michael ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ELUTING STENT; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 82955219539     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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