[Surgical treatment of lung cancer in patients with concurrent cardiovascular system diseases]

The data are reported on 1000 patients operated upon for lung cancer, in 290 of them concomitant cardiovascular lesions have been revealed. The postoperative mortality was found to be higher in patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis, hypertension of stage II--III at the age under 59, while in chronic coronary insufficiency, arrhythmia and impaired conductivity the mortality rate was not increased. In patients over 60 the postoperative mortality was higher than in young patients, however, a concomitant cardiovascular pathology rendered no appreciable effect. A 5-year survival in concomitant cardiovascular pathology was 25% versus 33.3% in control patients, that is attributed by the authors to a large number of "compromise" saving operations in patients with concomitant cardiovascular lesions.