[Current topics of coronary artery bypass surgery in Japan].
Recently, the number of patients with atherosclerosis has been rapidly increased in Japan. However, there are many kinds of resolving problems for management of those patients. Here history and current topics of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in Japan are clearly documented. That is, CABG could be done in 48,612 cases during the past 5 years (1991-1995). And its mortality rate was 2.3% approximately. On the other hand, 12,025 underwent CABG in 1996 in Japan. Further several kinds of operative methods including MIDCAB have been carried out with the number of the patients with ischemic heart diseases. Excellent results have been obtained respectively.
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Department of Surgery, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000401:mortality / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires