{"id":7157,"date":"2012-04-22T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T14:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2023-08-10T05:32:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:02:04","slug":"functional-syntax-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/functional-syntax-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional SYNTAX score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGP8xbo9tsw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"title single-title\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Functional SYNTAX score<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>SYNTAX score is calculated on a publicly available website using an online software. It can also be calculated on a downloadable software. It is used for coronary arteries with diameters more than 1.5 millimeters and having narrowing of more than fifty percent. It also takes into account the potential difficulty in performing a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).<\/p>\n<p>FAME (Fractional Flow Reserve versus Angiography in Multivessel Evaluation) study showed that among patients undergoing multivessel coronary stenting, measuring of coronary fractional flow reserve (FFR) with a pressure wire along with an intravenous infusion of adenosine which is potent coronary vasodilatory improved the decisions for PCI. An FFR of more than 0.80 is an accurate indicator that the given coronary lesion is not severe enough to cause ischemia. FSS is calculated using data from both these methods [1]. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">About one third of the patients originally thought to have high or intermediate risk were re-classified as lower risk by the FSS.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">The functional SYNTAX score was found to be better than SYNTAX score in predicting composite risk of death, myocardial infarction, and target vessel revascularization as well as the composite risk of death and myocardial infarction at one year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reference<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Nam C-W, Mangiacapra F, Entjes R, Chung IS, Sels JW, Tonino PA, De Bruyne B, Pijls NH, Fearon WF; FAME Study Investigators. FAME Investigators. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21903052\">Functional SYNTAX score for risk assessment in multivessel coronary artery disease.<\/a> J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011;58:1211-1218.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Functional SYNTAX score is calculated using data from coronary angiography and fractional flow reserve (FFR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angiography-and-interventions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Functional SYNTAX score - uses data from CAG and FFR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Functional SYNTAX score is calculated using data from coronary angiography and fractional flow reserve (FFR). 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