title: [General thoracic surgery in cardiac patients].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyse the main cardiac risk factors responsible for immediate and late outcomes in patients undergoing thoracic surgeries.
  
  
  METHODS
  We performed a retrospective analysis of 90 cases of cardiac patients submitted to non-cardiac thoracic surgeries. Surgeries were divided into greater ones and others and the heart diseases into severe and mild disease. We analysed immediate and late complications, and the mortality inside these groups.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found a greater morbi-mortality in the greater surgeries group and a greater late mortality in the severe heart disease group. There were evidences that the degree of the heart disease does not influence immediate outcome.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The heart disease was not a limiting immediate risk for surgery.
authors.affiliation: Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas, FMUSP.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pêgo-Fernandes
authors.forename: F B
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Jatene
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wada
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Terra Filho
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Jatene
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures
vernacular_title: Cirurgia torácica geral em pacientes cardiopatas.