title: A plea for combined cardiac and non-cardiac surgery.
abstract: The authors experience with combined cardiac and non-cardiac surgery is reported. Fourty-seven patients underwent contemporary surgical treatment for a cardiac disease and an associated non-cardiac lesion, usually represented by a cholelithiasis, or hernial defects. Two deaths were observed with 4.25% mortality rates. Specific advantages of contemporary cardiac and non cardiac surgery are recorded.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006554:Hernia, Umbilical / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged