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8141650

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-4-26
pubmed:abstractText
It has been over 40 years since the initial clinical application of a cardiac pacemaker. Currently, approximately 300 per million patients in the United States and Europe are kept alive owing to the benefit of implantable pacemakers. Recently, the Japanese Cardiac Pacing Society and the Japanese Society of Artificial Organs performed pacemaker registry studies for 1989 and 1990. In this paper, results of this survey are described. Currently, implantable cardiac pacemakers are utilized only on the level of 120 per million patients in Japan. Surprisingly, all implantations were performed using foreign manufactured pacemakers. Despite the high level of electronic technologies available in Japan, no Japanese-made implantable cardiac pacemakers are utilized in Japan. One could speculate that a major reason for the low level of clinical application of cardiac pacemakers is that these devices are quite expensive because of the import duties imposed on them. It is necessary and strongly recommended that implantable cardiac pacemakers be manufactured in Japan in order for them to be utilized as fully as they are in the United States and Europe.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0160-564X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
100-2
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
The status of pacemaker implantations in Japan.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article