SYNTAX Score in Patients With Diabetes Undergoing Coronary Revascularization in the FREEDOM Trial

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073510971838690X?via%3Dihub


The FREEDOM trial
A multicenter trial that studied diabetic patients with multivessel native CAD without left main stenosis or chronic total occlusions that had an indication for myocardial revascularization and were candidates for either CABG or PCI. Patients were randomized to either CABG or PCI with drug-eluting stents.

They used HCE, not MACCE.
Hard cardiovascular events
Death from any cause, nonfatal MI, and nonfatal stroke.

SS is useful for PCI not CABG.