• Derya Ozturk, Omer Celık, Cakmak Huseyin Altug HA Department of Cardiology, Rize Kackar Government Hospital, Rıze, Turkey., Fatih Akın, Serkan Aslan, Asım Enhos, Omer Tasbulak, Burak Ayca, Korhan Erkanlı, and İhsan Bakır.
• Department of Cardiology, Istanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey dr.deryaerbas@hotmail.com.
• Angiology. 2015 Sep 1; 66 (8): 714-20.

AbstractWe investigated the association between the preoperative logistic clinical syntax score (log CSS), saphenous vein graft (SVG) patency, and major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCEs) after coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). Of 1875 patients undergoing isolated CABG between 2009 and 2011, 267 patients, who later underwent coronary angiography, were included in the study. The primary end point was at least 1 graft occlusion on the follow-up coronary angiogram. The secondary end point was a composite of MACCE. In multivariate analysis, log CSS was found as a strong predictor of SVG failure (odds ratio [OR] 0.66, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.46-0.94, P = .02; and OR: 2.21, 95% CI: 1.02-4.75, P = .04, respectively): log CSS was also associated with MACCE (P = .001 and P < .001, respectively). The addition of clinical parameters to the anatomical SYNTAX score, termed as "log CSS", augmented the accuracy and reliability of the prediction of SVG failure and MACCE in patients undergoing CABG. © The Author(s) 2014.

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