Iversity Graduate School of Medicine,Miyagi,Japan Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Keio University,Tokyo,Japan Second Division of Surgery,University of Occupational and Environmental Overall health,Fukuoka,Japan Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,Kawasaki Healthcare College,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 Division of General Thoracic Surgery,Faculty of Medicine,Kagawa University,Kagawa,JapanTokyo,Japan Division of Surgery,Yokohama City University,Yokohama,Japan Department of Common Thoracic Surgery,Osaka University Graduate College of Medicine,Osaka,Japan Division of Gastroenterological Surgery,Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine,Osaka,Japan Division of Thoracic Surgery,Jichi Medical University,Tochigi,Japan Division of Cardiac Surgery,The University of Tokyo Hospital,Tokyo,Japan Department of Cardiovascular Surgery,National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center,Osaka,Japan Department of General Surgical Science Graduate School of Medicine,Gunma University,Gunma,Japan Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Sakura Health-related Center,Toho University,Chiba,Japan Table Questionnaires sent out and back by the end 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 every category in all institutions ( cardiovascular,basic thoracic,and esophageal) nationwide in early April . The response rates in every category by the finish of December had been and . ,respectively. This higher response price has been retain all through current survey,and much more than response price in all fields in survey must be congratulated.Table Categories subclassified based on the amount of operations performedNumber of operations performed Category Cardiovascular surgery Esophageal surgery Basic thoracic surgery Final report(A) Cardiovascular surgery First,we’re pretty pleased together with the high response price to our survey of cardiovascular surgery (which undoubtedly enhances the top quality of this annual report. We very substantially appreciate the enormous effort place into completing the survey at every 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 assist device implantation operations is just not included within the total number of surgical operations. A total of ,cardiovascular operations had been performed at institutions through alone and included heart transplantations,which have been restarted in . The amount of operations for congenital heart illness ( cases) decreased slightly compared with that of ( cases),and . reduce when compared with the data of years ago ( circumstances in. The number of operations for adult cardiac illness (cases in valvular heart disease,,instances in thoracic aortic aneurysm,and instances for other buy Potassium clavulanate:cellulose (1:1) procedures) improved compared with those of ( and . ,respectively) except for PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24085265 ischemic heart illness (instances),which decreased . of that in . For the duration of the last years,the numbers.