[Successful surgical treatment of aortic heart disease as a complication after combined targeted therapy for cancer].

Cardiovascular diseases and malignancies are leading causes of mortality in the world. Two categories of advanced age patients with cancer are observed in clinical practice. These are patients with cardiovascular diseases as comorbidities and patients with cardiovascular diseases as a complications of targeted therapy for cancer. Cardiac toxicity of chemotherapeutic drugs results myocardial dysfunction, occurrence or progression of heart valve disease, coronary artery disease, arterial hypertension and thromboembolism. A patient who underwent aortic valve replacement and coronary artery bypass surgery is discussed in the article. Aortic valve disease and coronary artery disease were complications of targeted radio- and chemotherapy for sigmoid colon cancer followed by lung and liver metastases. Questions of timely diagnosis and treatment of advanced age patients in multi-field surgical clinic are also analyzed.