Beyond the SYNTAX Score

The neurobiology of syntax: beyond string sets.

The human capacity to acquire language is an outstanding scientific challenge to understand. Somehow our language capacities arise from the way the human brain processes, develops and learns in interaction with its environment. To set the stage, we begin with a summary of what is known about the neural organization of language and what our artificial grammar learning (AGL) studies have revealed...

Beyond Statistical Learning in Syntax

Lost in calculation: the clinical SYNTAX score goes logistic.

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...

The relation between vitamin B12 and SYNTAX score.

BACKGROUND Vitamin B12 is required in the metabolism of homocysteine. Vitamin B12 deficiency has been implicated in endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease via hyperhomocysteinaemia. However, the association of vitamin B12 and the severity of coronary artery disease has not been studied to date. AIM This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the relationship between vitami...

Application of the SYNTAX score in interventional cardiology

BACKGROUND Should the SYNTAX score be integrated in Interventional Cardiology? Should it really be considered as a vital decision-making tool in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)? To confirm the importance of this score, we aimed to systematically compare the postinterventional adverse cardiovascular outcomes which were observed in patients who were allotted a low versus a high SYNTAX sc...