Registro de actividad de la Sociedad Española de Angiología y Cirugía Vascular, año 2005

The VR was filled in by 71 services, 30 of which have been approved as teaching centres. There were a total of43,159 hospital admissions, of which 15,842 (36.7%) were emergencies and 27,317 (62.3%) were programmed, the overall mean stay in hospital being 8.1 days. On 31st December 2005, there were more patients on the waiting list with venous pathologies (n = 8547) than cases of arterial pathology (n = 1481). Direct arterial surgical activity can be broken down as 2,135 interventions involving the supra-aortic trunks (SAT), 800 in the upper limbs, 60 in the thoracic aorta, 3,310 in the anatomical aortoiliac segment (of which 1,182 were to treat abdominal aortic aneurysms) and 1,203 extra-anatomical approaches, 88 in the trunks of the digestive organs, 52 in the renal arteries, 2,714 in the femoropopliteal segment and 1,518 in the femorodistal segment of the lower limbs. Varicose veins predominated in venous surgery, with 17,918 operations performed. Of the endovascular procedures, 408 involved the SAT, 128 the upper limbs, 730 aortic aneurysms (111 thoracic and 611 abdominal) and 2,871 arteries in the lower limbs. There were 172 venous endovascular procedures. The number of interventions (both surgical and endovascular) is significantly higher in TC than in NTC. Waiting lists, both for arterial and venous interventions, are shorter than those in 2004. Conclusions. External management of the register has significantly increased participation by the centres, although the number is still insufficient. Mean participation and surgical activity are higher in TC than in the case of NTC. Conventional arterial surgery is the most frequent type of intervention. The waiting list for arterial and venous operations was shorter in 2005 than in 2004.