Minimally invasive interventions allow us to respond to any complications related to the heart, so it is expected to decrease open-heart surgery dramatically; in a decade, minimally invasive procedures definitely replace conventional surgery.

This was highlighted on Wednesday during the XXV Meeting of the Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC), which runs through this Friday in Cordoba, and has detailed that in Spain there are 333 interventional cardiologists and 47 physicians in Andalusia of this specialty. The aforementioned minimally invasive techniques have expanded the number of patients who can have an interventional procedure; they also reduce the length of hospital stay and complications from the surgery, which has contributed to a gradual reduction in cardiovascular mortality.

However, due to a slow and uneven implementation of these techniques, among other reasons, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in Spain, amassing 30.3% of all deaths, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Spain is one of the countries with the lowest rate of cardiovascular mortality, behind countries like Germany or the United States.

Andalucía, as highlighted in the XXV Meeting of Hemodynamics and Cardiology, as the second highest mortality percentage community from this cause, with 33.27% of all deaths. Experts relate this fact with a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among Andalusian and unequal access to interventional procedures, compared to other European countries.

By: SOLACI.ORG