title: [Combined lung and heart surgery].
abstract: Patients with concomitant pulmonary carcinoma and serious heart disease represent a therapeutic challenge. With the introduction of combined lung-heart surgery, both conditions may be treated adequately and safely. At Rikshospitalet, combined surgery was performed in four cases during the period 1984-88. In three patients heart surgery and lung resection were performed in one anesthetic session. In the fourth case the heart disease was corrected first and the tumor removed a few weeks later. After 1-4 years follow-up none of the patients has clinical manifestations of either condition. Combined surgery is only applicable if tumor removal is confined to wedge resection or lobectomy.
authors.affiliation: Lungeavdelingen, Rikshospitalet, Oslo.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Lund
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naalsund
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rostad
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged
vernacular_title: Kombinert lunge- og hjertekirurgi.