In 2018, about 5,000 surgical revascularizations were performed in Spain.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by the SECTCV national cardiac surgery registry report for 2018, which reports 5,085 coronary revascularization procedures, matching the claim's rounded figure of 'about 5,000'. Multiple independent mirrors of the same registry article confirm this.
Sources
- CirugÃa de revascularización miocárdica: análisis de supervivencia a corto y largo plazo (scielo.isciii.es)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S113400961930258X (sciencedirect.com)
- https://www.elsevier.es/es-revista-cirugia-cardiovascular-358-articulo-cirugia-cardiovascular-espana-el-ano-S113400961930258X (elsevier.es)