Trends in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Korea.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronary angioplasty has been replacing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) because of the relative advantage in terms of recovery time and noninvasiveness of the procedure. Compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, Korea has experienced a rapid increase in coronary angioplasty volumes.

Methods

We analyzed changes in procedure volumes of CABG and of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from three sources: the OECD Health Data, the National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) surgery statistics, and the National Health Insurance claims data.

Results

We found the ratio of procedure volume of PCI to that of CABG per 100,000 population was 19.12 in 2014, which was more than triple the OECD average of 5.92 for t

SUBMITTER: Lee H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5173333 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature