Table 2 General features of the studies included.

From: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and the SYNTAX score: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Type of study

Low syntax range

High syntax range

No of patients with low score (n)

No of patients with high score (n)

PCI with low versus high SYNTAX score

 Garg9

RCT

≤16

>16

545

262

 Garg10

RCT

≤17

>17

1374

659

 Wykrzykowska11

RCT

≤16

>16

936

461

 Yadav12

RCT

≤12

>12

1679

948

 Capodanno13

OS

≤34

>34

257

85

 Kim14

OS

≤36

>36

703

116

 Total no of patients (n)

   

5521

2531

CABG with low versus high SYNTAX score

 Cho15

OS

<33

≥33

309

87

 Cho15

OS

<23

≥23

159

237

 Farooq16

RCT

<22

≥22

58

55

 Gannot17

OS

<33

≥33

343

63

 Gannot17

OS

<23

≥23

205

201

 Miyagi18

OS

≤23

>23

217

217

 Total no of patients (n)

   

1132

773

Low score PCI versus high score CABG

 Capodanno13

OS

≤34

>34

257

204

 Kim14

OS

≤36

>36

703

406

 Shiomi19

OS

<33

≥33

240

230

 Total no of patients (n)

   

1200

840

  1. Abbreviations: RCT: randomized controlled trials, OS: observational studies, PCI: percutaneous coronary intervention, CABG: coronary artery bypass surgery, SYNTAX: Synergy Between PCI With Taxus and Cardiac Surgery.
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