Contemporary use and trends in percutaneous coronary intervention in Japan: an outline of the J-PCI registry.

ABSTRACT: Cardiovascular interventions have achieved a level of excellence, with many outstanding advanced techniques and results. The mission of the Japanese Association of Cardiovascular Intervention and Therapeutics (CVIT) is to further our understanding of cardiovascular intervention and establish its procedural safety. [1] The Japanese Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (J-PCI) registry was established and sponsored by CVIT, and aims to provide basic statistics on the performance of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in Japan. Today, the database has grown to become one of the largest healthcare procedural database with more than 200,000 cases registered annually from approximately 900 institutions in Japan representing over 90% of all PCI hospitals in the nation. Importantly, case regis

SUBMITTER: Sawano M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295726 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature