The academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences stated about the possibility of arrhythmia in almost every person.

Every third patient with arrhythmia is admitted to a cardiology hospital for diagnosis. This was announced on December 18 by the Director of the A.V. Vishnevsky National Medical Research Center for Surgery, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Amiran Revishvili.

"As for arrhythmology, unfortunately, every person on the planet has some kind of arrhythmia. Thank God they're not life-threatening. But every third person ends up in a cardiology hospital, and these conditions are being diagnosed there," Revishvili said at the opening of the AMICS 2025 conference, RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.

He noted that of the 560,000 heart surgeries performed annually in Russia, 67% are percutaneous coronary interventions, 21% are interventional arrhythmology (over 107 thousand procedures), and 13% are cardiac surgery.

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