[Cardiac pacing activities in Lithuania in the background of other European countries].
Survey of pacemaking activities of the three Lithuanian centers (located in Kaunas, Vilnius and Klaipeda) is presented. Results of the last eight years are analyzed and compared with the activities of the rest European countries. According to the index of number of primary implantations per 1 million of population/per year Lithuania has ranked in 19th position. Annual number of implantations of cardioverter-defibrillators is approximately 5-10. These results demonstrate that Lithuania lags behind the majority of European countries. There is a need to increase the activities both in implantation of pacemakers and cardioverter-defibrillators as well.
Stirbys
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Clinic of Cardiology, Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital, Eiveniu 2, 3007 Kaunas, Lithuania. pstirbys@kalnieciai.lt
D002304:Cardiac Pacing, Artificial / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017147:Defibrillators, Implantable / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008097:Lithuania; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*