11(3-4):135. VII. nacionalni sastanak o kardiovaskularnim intervencijama s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem VI. sastanak intervencijskih kardioloških medicinskih sestara i tehničara Development of interventional cardiology in treating heart diseases in children in the Reference Centre for Pediatric Cardiology 1 in the last 20 years (1996 -2015) is presented. Constant growth in the number of heart catheterizations (from 160 to 241) is followed by a relatively higher growth in the number of

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... al catheterizations (from 12.5% to 38.1%). While the number of catheterizations (Table 1) has increased by 50% (160 to 241 =1,5), the number of interventional catheterizations has increased by more than 200% (12.5 -38.1% > 3). In our conditions these data point to an absolute increase of interventional treatment when compared to the diagnostic heart catheterization itself, despite the fact that the latest diagnostic methods are still not applied sufficiently (MSCT, MRI, -4):136. VII. nacionalni sastanak o kardiovaskularnim intervencijama s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem VI. sastanak intervencijskih kardioloških medicinskih sestara i tehničara LITERATURE