Association of Coronary Anatomical Complexity With Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous or Surgical Revascularization in the Veterans Affairs Clinical Assessment Reporting and Tracking Program.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Anatomical scoring systems for coronary artery disease, such as the SYNTAX (Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention [PCI] With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery) score, are well established tools for understanding patient risk. However, they are cumbersome to compute manually for large data sets, limiting their use across broad and varied cohorts.

Objective

To adapt an anatomical scoring system for use with registry data, allowing facile and automatic calculation of scores and association with clinical outcomes among patients undergoing percutaneous or surgical revascularization.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional observational cohort study involved procedures performed in all cardiac catheterization laboratories in the largest integr

SUBMITTER: Valle JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6596331 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature