SYNTAX Score Reproducibility and Variability Between Interventional Cardiologists, Core Laboratory Technicians, and Quantitative Coronary Measurements
Généreux P, Palmerini T, Caixeta A, Cristea E, Mehran R, Sanchez R, Lazar D, Jankovic I, Corral MD, Dressler O, Fahy MP, Parise H, Lansky AJ, Stone GW. SYNTAX Score Reproducibility and Variability Between Interventional Cardiologists, Core Laboratory Technicians, and Quantitative Coronary Measurements. Circulation Cardiovascular Interventions 2011, 4: 553-561. PMID: 22028472, DOI: 10.1161/circinterventions.111.961862.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsQuantitative coronary angiographyAngiographic core laboratorySYNTAX scoreInterventional cardiologistsComplex coronary artery diseaseCardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) trialPercutaneous coronary interventionCoronary artery diseaseSmall vessel diseaseFuture clinical trialsQuantitative coronary measurementsNumber of lesionsAdditional angiogramsCoronary interventionArtery diseaseCoronary angiographySurgery TrialClinical trialsClinical utilityCoronary measurementsIntensive training sessionCore laboratoryLesion typeRoutine practiceScore reproducibility