Risk stratification of patients undergoing medical therapy after coronary angiography
Bettinger N, Palmerini T, Caixeta A, Dressler O, Litherland C, Francese DP, Giustino G, Mehran R, Leon MB, Stone GW, Généreux P. Risk stratification of patients undergoing medical therapy after coronary angiography. European Heart Journal 2015, 37: 3103-3110. PMID: 26685136, DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv674.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMajor adverse cardiac eventsCoronary artery diseaseSYNTAX scoreMedical therapyNSTE-ACSRisk stratificationSegment elevation acute coronary syndromesElevation acute coronary syndromeAdverse ischemic eventsMean SYNTAX scoreAdverse cardiac eventsAcute coronary syndromeBetter prognostic accuracyReceiver operator characteristic analysisImportant clinical implicationsStrongest predictorOperator characteristic analysisACUITY trialCoronary syndromeInitial angiogramCardiac eventsIschemic eventsPrognostic impactArtery diseaseCoronary angiographyReasonable incomplete revascularisation after percutaneous coronary intervention: the SYNTAX Revascularisation Index.
Généreux P, Campos CM, Yadav M, Palmerini T, Caixeta A, Xu K, Francese DP, Dangas GD, Mehran R, Leon MB, Serruys PW, Stone GW. Reasonable incomplete revascularisation after percutaneous coronary intervention: the SYNTAX Revascularisation Index. EuroIntervention 2015, 11: 634-42. PMID: 25308300, DOI: 10.4244/eijy14m10_05.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedArea Under CurveChi-Square DistributionCoronary AngiographyCoronary Artery DiseaseDecision Support TechniquesFemaleHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisMyocardial InfarctionPercutaneous Coronary InterventionPredictive Value of TestsProportional Hazards ModelsProspective StudiesRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsROC CurveTime FactorsTreatment OutcomeConceptsResidual SYNTAX scorePercutaneous coronary interventionBaseline SYNTAX scoreOne-year mortalityCoronary artery diseaseCAD burdenIncomplete revascularisationSYNTAX scoreCoronary interventionOne-year adverse outcomesResidual coronary artery diseaseNew prognostic instrumentPrediction of deathAngiograms of patientsBetter prognostic accuracyDegree of revascularisationACUITY trialArtery diseaseIndependent predictorsMultivariable analysisAdverse outcomesWorse outcomesPrognostic accuracyPrognostic instrumentPatients