Iversity Graduate School of Medicine,Miyagi,Japan Department of MedChemExpress mDPR-Val-Cit-PAB-MMAE Cardiovascular Surgery,Keio University,Tokyo,Japan Second Department of Surgery,University of Occupational and Environmental Overall health,Fukuoka,Japan Division of Cardiovascular Surgery,Kawasaki Healthcare College,Okayama,Japan Division 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 Department of Surgery,Yokohama City University,Yokohama,Japan Department of General Thoracic Surgery,Osaka University Graduate School 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 Division of Basic Surgical Science Graduate School of Medicine,Gunma University,Gunma,Japan Department 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) Basic thoracic surgery (C) Esophageal surgery Returned Response rate ( . . .Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg :Abstract of your surveyWe sent out survey questionnaire types for the departments of every category in all institutions ( cardiovascular,common thoracic,and esophageal) nationwide in early April . The response prices in each category by the finish of December had been and . ,respectively. This high response rate has been maintain throughout recent survey,and more than response rate in all fields in survey must be congratulated.Table Categories subclassified based on the number of operations performedNumber of operations performed Category Cardiovascular surgery Esophageal surgery General thoracic surgery Final report(A) Cardiovascular surgery Very first,we are extremely pleased together with the high response price to our survey of cardiovascular surgery (which absolutely enhances the good quality of this annual report. We extremely substantially appreciate the huge effort place into finishing the survey at every participating institution. Figure shows the development of cardiovascular surgery in Japan over the last years. Aneurysm surgery incorporates only operations for thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm. Pacemaker implantation contains only transthoracic implantation,and transvenous implantation is excluded. The amount of pacemaker and assist device implantation operations just isn’t included within the total number of surgical operations. A total of ,cardiovascular operations were performed at institutions for the duration of alone and integrated heart transplantations,which had been restarted in . The number of operations for congenital heart illness ( circumstances) decreased slightly compared with that of ( cases),and . reduce when compared together with the data of years ago ( situations in. The number of operations for adult cardiac disease (circumstances in valvular heart illness,,cases in thoracic aortic aneurysm,and cases for other procedures) elevated compared with those of ( and . ,respectively) except for PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24085265 ischemic heart illness (cases),which decreased . of that in . In the course of the final years,the numbers.
