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The ‘ E pworth– C hina connection’
Author(s) -
Lim Y. L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02921.x
Subject(s) - medicine , percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty , china , percutaneous , beijing , angioplasty , population , surgery , cardiology , environmental health , political science , law
Interventional cardiologists from C hina first arrived at the E pworth H ospital in M elbourne for training in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in 1988. Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty was initially performed in C hina in 1981 in X ian. In those days, angioplasty balloons and catheters that were brought into C hina mainly by foreign experts were used repeatedly until they were broken. D r. A ntonio C olombo was invited to visit B eijing, C hina, in 1998 to demonstrate coronary stenting at the C haoyang H ospital. By 2010, more than 300 000 cases of percutaneous coronary interventions ( PCIs ) had been performed throughout C hina. If the current rate of PCIs per population in the W est was to be applied in C hina, more than 4 million PCIs should have been performed annually.