OBJECTIVES Validation studies of European system for cardiac operative risk evaluation II (EuroSCORE
II) have been limited to European datasets. Therefore, the aims of this study …

OBJECTIVES Continuous monitoring of surgical outcomes through benchmarking and the
identification of best practices has become increasingly important. A structured approach to …

Since first introduced in the mid-1960s, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has become
the standard of care for patients with coronary artery disease. Surprisingly, the fundamental …

We systematically investigated how 11 overlapping meta-analyses on the association
between CYP2C19 loss-of-function alleles and clinical efficacy of clopidogrel could yield …

The unprecedented progress in ensemble hydro‐meteorological modelling and forecasting
on a range of temporal and spatial scales, raises a variety of new challenges which formed …

… colleagues 12 and Carosella and colleagues, 25 the highest quintile for Qadir and colleagues
17 and Laurent and colleagues, 20 and predicted risk of mortality >10% by Osnabrugge …

The majority (70%) of coronary revascularizations concern patients with multivessel disease
(MVD). Treatment options include medical therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI…

The neuromodulatory effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) are often
described as inhibiting for low frequency and facilitating for high frequency protocols, …

In the 1960s, the first saphenous vein bypass from the ascending aorta to the anterior
descending coronary artery was performed, 1 thereby laying the foundation of coronary artery …