Survey on status of intervention therapy for heart diseases in Chinese medical hospital in China / 中国中西医结合杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To investigate the nationwide status of intervention therapy for heart diseases (hIT) in Chinese medicine and integrated medical hospitals in China, and to push forward the development of intervention technique.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Hospitals met the inclusion criteria were screened out by searching the "database of hospitals and medical institutions in China" from the Chinese Medical Network; and related materials from them were gathered with questionnaires by mail.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Reply was gathered from 239 of the 250 questionnaires mailed, by which, it was known that hIT has been carried out in 37 hospitals, until May 2009, a total of 34 327 cases of coronary angiography was completed, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was performed in 12 670 patients with coronary heart disease, 3 631 patients received pacemaker implantation, 2 187 cases of radiofrequency catheter ablation, and 652 cases of congenital heart disease related interventional therapy were accomplished. Additional, 13 hospitals (35.1%) had annually completed more than 200 cases of coronary angiography or 100 cases of PCI.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>hLT technique has been developed to a definite extent in Chinese medicine/integrated medical hospitals, which plays an important role in promoting the integrative medical research on cardiovascular diseases. However, related policy, support and normalization are necessary for its healthy and well-ordered development.</p>