title: [Malignant disease identified after the emergency cardiac operation].
abstract: We experienced 2 patients who died early after emergency cardiac operation because of malignant diseases. In one case, we operated on a 67-year-old woman for infective endocarditis and performed aortic valve replacement, but she died of terminal pancreatic cancer on the 26 postoperative day. In the other case, a 53-year-old woman underwent emergency operation for cardiac tumor of the left atrium. However, the tumor was diagnosed as cardiac sarcoma during the operation, and it could not be completely resected. The sarcoma recurred after 2 months and she passed away. An emergency cardiac operation without enough preoperative examinations sometimes causes a poor prognosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki, Japan.
authors.forename: Eiki
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Woo
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ozawa
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kakita
authors.forename: Tomoyasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tokumaru
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Daimon
authors.forename: Tomoshige
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Morimoto
authors.forename: Shintaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nemoto
authors.forename: Keiichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Katsumata
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*