[Economic implications of the various treatment methods in myocardial ischemia].
Modern treatments of myocardial ischaemia are effective. Surgical coronary revascularization involves high immediate expenditures, but these are tempered by a subsequent reduction in medical consumption and costs. Coronary angioplasty is a more comfortable revascularization procedure than bypass surgery which it increasingly tends to supersede. The overall health expenditures involved are about 20% lower than those of surgery. Treatment of incipient infarction has recently been introduced. Its generalization implies a reorganization of medical care and a major increase in expenditures. To what extent this increase will be upset by the benefits of avoided or limited infarction can only be determined by detailed and accurate evaluation.
Artigou
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Service de cardiologie, hôpital La Salpêtrière, Paris.
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D000800:Angioplasty, Balloon / Q000191:economics; D003363:Cost Control; D005602:France; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D009204:Myocardial Revascularization / Q000191:economics
Les implications économiques des divers traitements de l'ischémie myocardique.