[Simultaneous surgery of competing cardio-vascular and malignant diseases of lungs and mediastinum].

36 patients were operated on lung cancer (30), trachea (1), lung colon cancer metastases (1), left atrium paraganglioma, bronchogenic thymic cyst (1) and lung tuberculoma (2). Competing cardio-vascular diseases were as follows: coronary heart disease (30), valve failure (3) and critical stenosis of internal carotid artery (3). Simultaneous operations were performed in 13 (36.1%), consecutive - in 23 patients. Non-complicated postoperative period was registered in 19 patients. 6 of them had simultaneous surgery and 13 were operated on consecutively. Overall mortality rate was 8.3%; among patients operated on simultaneously it was 15.4%, among patients of the second group - 4.3%. There were no postoperative deaths among patients, operated first on cardio-vascular system.