title: Simultaneously performed off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting and colectomy: a case report.
abstract: This is written so as to report the case of a 71-year-old male with a diagnosis of sigmoid adenocarcinoma accompanied by severe coronary artery disease and unstable angina, which was subject to simultaneous surgical treatment. The patient initially underwent an off-pump coronary artery revascularization in order to avoid the complications of cardiopulmonary bypass, providing the opportunity of a colectomy at the same time with the use of safe surgical means. Our case suggests that performing an off-pump bypass procedure prior to cancer surgery can be an appropriate course of action in carefully selected cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Patras School of Medicine, Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dedeilias
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nenekidis
authors.forename: Efstratios
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koletsis
authors.forename: Nikolaos G
authors.initials: NG
authors.lastname: Baikoussis
authors.forename: Panagiotis
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hountis
authors.forename: Dimitrios
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Exarhos
authors.forename: Serafim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Klimopoulos
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000789:Angina, Unstable; D003082:Colectomy; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D047549:Coronary Artery Bypass, Off-Pump; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*