Investigation of Current Trend of AAA Treatment in Korea.
10.4174/jkss.2011.80.2.125
- Author:
Yang Jin PARK
1
;
Nari KIM
;
Young Wook KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. ywkim@skku.edu
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Abdominal aortic aneurysm;
Endovascular aneurysm repair;
Prevalence;
Screening
- MeSH:
Aneurysm;
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal;
Humans;
Insurance, Health, Reimbursement;
Korea;
Mass Screening;
Phosphatidylethanolamines;
Prevalence;
Rupture
- From:Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
2011;80(2):125-130
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: To know the current trend of the annual number of AAA patients in Korea and treatment modality, we attempted to investigate the numbers of patients diagnosed with AAA and the number of patients who underwent open or endovascular treatment of AAA in Korea during the last 6 years. METHODS: To investigate the number of AAA patients, we searched for ruptured AAA and AAA without description of rupture disease from the database of Health Insurance Reimbursement Association (HIRA) by searching the disease code of HIRA I71.3 (ruptured AAA) and I71.4 (AAA without description of rupture) during the period between 2003 and 2009. To investigate the number of patients who underwent treatment for AAA, we searched for code O 2036, O 2034, O 0223, O 0224 (open surgical repair) and M 6612 (endovascular aneurysm repair, EVAR). To discern the number of AAA-related deaths in Korea during the same period, we depended on the database of the Statistics Korea. RESULTS: We found that the number of AAA patients and treatment of AAA were rapidly increasing recently after the inception of the reimbursement for EVAR by the HIRA. But the number of AAA-related deaths did not significantly change during the same period in Korea. CONCLUSION: After observing that the number of patients with AAA and its treatment rapidly increased while the number of AAA-related death did not increase, we can assume that it is the result of increase of patients detection rather than that of prevalence of AAA and also think that many AAA patients are still under-detected in Korea. To cope with the increasing number of AAA patients and to facilitate detection of hidden AAA patients, we would like to propose a nationwide screening program of AAA for a selected group of the population.
