Registry of the Working Group on Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology for the year 2000

The results of the Registry of the Working Group on Hemodynamics and Interventional Cardiology of the Spanish Society of Cardiology for 2000 are presented. Date came from 100 centers representing all the cardiac catheterization laboratories in Spain; 93 centers performed mainly adult catheterization and 7 carried out only pediatric procedures. In 2000, 88,339 diagnostic catheterization procedures were performed (73,382 coronary angiograms), representing a total increase of 12.5% over 1999. The population-adjusted rate was 1,825 coronary angiograms per 10(6) inhabitants. With a total of 26,993 procedures and a rate of coronary interventions per 106 inhabitants of 671, coronary intervention increased by 17% over figures for 1999. Coronary stents were the devices used most often, with 29,504 implanted in 2000; stenting accounted for 77.2% of procedures, a 30.5% increase over 1999, The increase in direct stenting without predilatation was noteworthy. Direct stenting was done in 8,778 procedures (38.9% of the total), an increase of 131% compared to 1999. IIb-IIIa glycoprotein were used in 4,700 coronary interventions (17%). Angioplasty, performed in 3,128 cases of acute myocardial infarction, accounted for 11.6% of coronary interventions 33.5% more than in 1999. A decrease of 6.5% in valvuloplastics occurred, attributable to the performance of fewer mitral valve repairs (493 vs 525 in 2000 and 1999, respectively). Pediatric procedures increased by 20.5%, from 678 to 817 cases, In conclusion, we would like to underline the high rate of reporting by laboratories, through which the Registry has been able to compile data that are highly representative of the hemodynamic activity in Spain.