T he anatomic Synergy Between Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With TAXUS and Cardiac Surgery (SYNTAX) score is a stratification score illustrating the complexity of angiographic stenosis. It was considered a sur-rogate for poor prognosis after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). 1 Accordingly, in patients with a high baseline SYNTAX score (bSS) requiring coronary revascularization, cor...

Cardiothoracic surgery pioneered the use of risk models in the reporting of operative results of patients referred to myocardial revascularization. Recently, interventional cardiology has rekindled its interest in constructing specific scores for longterm risk prediction of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). One of them, dubbed the SYNTAX score, is a successful model with website dissemi...