Angiographic complexity of coronary artery disease according to SYNTAX score and clinical outcomes after revascularisation with newer-generation drug-eluting stents: a substudy of the BIOSCIENCE trial

Anna Franzone1, MD; Masanori Taniwaki1, MD; Fabio Rigamonti2, MD; Dik Heg3, PhD; Raffaele Piccolo1, MD; Marco Roffi2, MD; David Tüller4, MD; Olivier Muller5, MD; Andre Vuilliomenet6, MD; Stéphane Cook7, MD; Daniel Weilenmann8, MD; Christoph Kaiser9, MD; Peiman Jamshidi10, MD, PhD; Peter Jüni11, MD; Stephan Windecker1*, MD; Thomas Pilgrim1, MD

1. Department of Cardiology, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland; 2. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland; 3. CTU Bern, Department of Clinical Research, and Institute of Social and Preventive M

Aims: We sought to assess the performance of drug-eluting stents combining an ultrathin cobalt-chromium platform with a biodegradable polymer across categories of increasing SYNTAX score

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