The role of SYNTAX score in decision-making for preoperative carotid artery screening in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.

Serdar Akansel Murat Sargın Sevinç Bayer Erdoğan Murat Bastopcu Hüseyin Kuplay Onur Sokullu Md Serap Aykut Aka Md

Published in: Journal of cardiac surgery (2019)

This study suggests that the presence of left main coronary artery disease or SXscore greater than or equal to 27 should require preoperative carotid screening in patients undergoing CABG, regardless of the presence of risk factors.

Keyphrases

coronary artery bypass
patients undergoing
percutaneous coronary intervention
coronary artery disease
risk factors
decision making
coronary artery bypass grafting
acute coronary syndrome
atrial fibrillation
left ventricular
ejection fraction