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In Denmark, approximately 30,000 coronary angiographies, 10,000 PCIs, and 500 TAVIs are performed annually, with structural heart interventions increasing while CAG and PCI volumes have plateaued.
Provides a national overview of interventional cardiology procedure volumes and trends in Denmark between 2010 and 2015, highlighting a plateau in coronary procedures and growth in structural interventions.
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Danish volume trends may inform local capacity planning; leaves open generalizability and drivers beyond this single-country observational snapshot.
Interventional cardiology in Denmark has been carried out since the mid 1980s. Interventional cardiology is only performed at a few high-volume centres. Healthcare coverage is universal and is essentially free of charge. Hospitals are mostly publicly owned and financed by fixed budgets and, in part, an activity-based funding system. Approximately 30,000 coronary angiographies (CAG), 10,000 percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) of which approximately 25% are primary PCIs, and 500 transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVIs) are carried out each year. The numbers of CAG and PCI have reached a plateau in recent years, whereas structural heart interventions, in particular TAVI, are increasing. Around 90% of all patients treated with PCI have a stent implanted, with more than 95% of these being drug-eluting stents. There is a low but increasing use of bioabsorbable scaffolds and drug-eluting balloons.
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Tilsted et al. (2017) conducted a review in Coronary and structural heart disease. Coronary and structural heart interventions was evaluated. In Denmark, approximately 30,000 coronary angiographies, 10,000 PCIs, and 500 TAVIs are performed annually, with structural heart interventions increasing while CAG and PCI volumes have plateaued.
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