Iversity Graduate College of Medicine,Miyagi,Japan Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,Keio University,Tokyo,Japan Second Division of Surgery,University of Occupational and Environmental Wellness,Fukuoka,Japan Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Kawasaki Health-related School,Okayama,Japan Department of Gastroenterological Surgery,National Kyushu Cancer Center,Fukuoka,Japan Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery,Graduate College of Medicine,The University of Tokyo,Tokyo,Japan Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,Nihon University Hospital,Tokyo,Japan Department of Common Thoracic Surgery,Faculty of Medicine,Kagawa University,Kagawa,JapanTokyo,Japan Division of Surgery,Yokohama City University,Yokohama,Japan Division of Common Thoracic Surgery,Osaka University Graduate College of Medicine,Osaka,Japan Department of Gastroenterological Surgery,Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine,Osaka,Japan Division of Thoracic Surgery,Jichi Healthcare University,Tochigi,Japan Division of Cardiac Surgery,The University of Tokyo Hospital,Tokyo,Japan Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center,Osaka,Japan Department of Common Surgical CCT245737 site Science Graduate College of Medicine,Gunma University,Gunma,Japan Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Sakura Healthcare Center,Toho University,Chiba,Japan Table Questionnaires sent out and back by the finish of December Sent out (A) Cardiovascular surgery (B) General thoracic surgery (C) Esophageal surgery Returned Response rate ( . . .Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg :Abstract with the surveyWe sent out survey questionnaire types to the departments of each and every category in all institutions ( cardiovascular,general thoracic,and esophageal) nationwide in early April . The response prices in each category by the end of December have been and . ,respectively. This high response price has been preserve all through current survey,and more than response price in all fields in survey must be congratulated.Table Categories subclassified according to the amount of operations performedNumber of operations performed Category Cardiovascular surgery Esophageal surgery General thoracic surgery Final report(A) Cardiovascular surgery Very first,we’re pretty pleased together with the high response price to our survey of cardiovascular surgery (which undoubtedly enhances the quality of this annual report. We very substantially appreciate the massive effort put into completing the survey at every single participating institution. Figure shows the improvement of cardiovascular surgery in Japan during the last years. Aneurysm surgery involves only operations for thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. Pacemaker implantation involves only transthoracic implantation,and transvenous implantation is excluded. The number of pacemaker and help device implantation operations is just not included within the total quantity of surgical operations. A total of ,cardiovascular operations have been performed at institutions for the duration of alone and incorporated heart transplantations,which had been restarted in . The number of operations for congenital heart illness ( cases) decreased slightly compared with that of ( cases),and . lower when compared with all the information of years ago ( situations in. The amount of operations for adult cardiac illness (cases in valvular heart illness,,circumstances in thoracic aortic aneurysm,and instances for other procedures) elevated compared with those of ( and . ,respectively) except for PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24085265 ischemic heart disease (instances),which decreased . of that in . Through the last years,the numbers.
