Impact of coronary calcification assessed by coronary CT angiography on treatment decision in patients with three-vessel CAD: insights from SYNTAX III trial.
Daniele AndreiniJoanna J WykrzykowskaSaima MushtaqEdoardo ConteRodrigo ModoloJeroen SonckJohan De MeyPaolo RavagnaniDanny SchoorsFrancesco MaisanoPhilipp KaufmannWietze LindeboomMarie-Angele MorelTorsten DoenstUlf TeichgräberGianluca PontoneGiulio PompilioAntonio BartorelliYoshinobu OnumaPatrick W SerruysPublished in: Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (2021)
An overall good correlation between CCTA- and ICA-derived Syntax score was found. The presence of heavy coronary calcification moderately influenced the agreement between CCTA and ICA on the anatomical SYNTAX score. However, agreement on the treatment decision and planning was high and irrespective of the presence of calcified lesions.