JCS/JHRS 2019 Guideline on Non-Pharmacotherapy of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Akihiko Nogami, Takashi Kurita, Haruhiko Abe, Kenji Andò, Toshiyuki Ishikawa, Katsuhiko Imai, Akihiko Usui, Kaoru Okishige, Kengo Kusano, Koichiro Kumagai, Masahiko Goya, Yoshinori Kobayashi, Akihiko Shimizu, Wataru Shimizu, Morio Shoda, Naokata Sumitomo, Yoshihiro Seo, Atsushi Takahashi, Hiroshi Tada, Shigeto Naito, Yuji Nakazato, Takashi Nishimura, Takashi Nitta, Shinichi Niwano, Nobuhisa Hagiwara, Yuji Murakawa, Teiichi Yamane, Takeshi Aiba, Koichi Inoue, Yu‐ki Iwasaki, Yasuya Inden, Kikuya Uno, Michio Ogano, Masaomi Kimura, Shun‐ichiro Sakamoto, Shingo Sasaki, Kazuhiro Satomi, Tsuyoshi Shiga, Tsugutoshi Suzuki, Yukio Sekiguchi, Kyoko Soejima, Masahiko Takagi, Masaomi Chinushi, Nobuhiro Nishi, Takashi Noda, Hitoshi Hachiya, Masataka Mitsuno, Takeshi Mitsuhashi, Yasushi Miyauchi, Aya Miyazaki, Tomoshige Morimoto, Hiro Yamasaki, Yoshifusa Aizawa, Tohru Ohe, Takeshi Kimura, Kazuo Tanemoto, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Hideo Mitamura, on behalf of the JCS/JHRS Joint Working Group
Abstract
1 Current status of non‐pharmacotherapies in Japan Pacemaker treatment for bradyarrhythmia was first approved for national health insurance coverage in Japan in 1974, and its use rapidly became widespread thereafter. Approximately 40 years later, in 2017, the number of patients treated with this technology has increased to 60 137 (41 895 new cases and approximately 18 242 replacements). 5 Capsule‐shaped leadless pacemaker also became available in 2016, and this technology is being established as a new option. Non‐pharmacological treatment of tachy‐arrhythmia began in 1969 from when Will C. Sealy performed surgery in patients with Wolff‐Parkinson‐White (WPW) syndrome (Figure 1). Since then, the application of surgical treatment has expanded to conditions such as ventricular tachycardia (VT) and atrial fibrillation (AF), and surgery has been the pioneer of radical therapy for tachyarrhythmias. At the present time, many surgical methods have been replaced by catheter ablation; however, surgical treatment still remains an indispensable option for patients with a tachycardia resistant to other medical treatments. Open in a separate window FIGURE 1 History of non‐pharmacotherapy of cardiac arrhythmia