The CABG SYNTAX score - An angiographic tool to grade the complexity of coronary disease following coronary artery bypass graft surgery: From the SYNTAX left main angiographic (SYNTAX-LE MANS) substudy

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1277-1285

  Farooq, Vasim ^a   Girasis, Chrysafios ^a   Magro, Michael ^a   Onuma, Yoshinobu ^a   Morel, Marie Angèle ^f   Heo, Jung Ho ^a   Garcia Garcia, Hector ^a   Kappetein, Arie Pieter ^a   Van Den Brand, Marcel ^f   Holmes, David R ^b   Mack, Michael ^c   Feldman, Ted ^d   Colombo, Antonio ⁱ   Ståhle, Elisabeth ^g   James, Stefan ^g   Carrié, Didier ^k   Fournial, Gerard ^k   Van Es, Gerrit Anne ^f   Dawkins, Keith D ^h   Mohr, Friedrich W ^j   Morice, Marie Claude ^e   Serruys, Patrick W ^a   more..

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d EVANSTON HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Institut Jacques Cartier   (France)

^f CARDIALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^g UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁱ SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG HEART CENTER   (Germany)

^k CHU RANGUEIL   (France)

more..

Author keywords

CABG; CABG SYNTAX score; Leaman score; PCI; SYNTAX score

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT SYNTAX SCORE; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; LEAMAN SCORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PILOT STUDY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNTAX SCORE;

EID: 84878327661     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8I11A196     Document Type: Article

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