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Combined Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting and Lung Surgery

Suat N Ömerolu, MD, Hasan B Erdoan, MD, Kaan Kirali, MD, Atilla Ömerolu, MD¹, Mehmet E Toker, MD, Nihan Kayalar, MD, Gökhan pek, MD, Cevat Yakut, MD

Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kouyolu Heart and Research Hospital
¹ Department of Pathology, GATA Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

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Combined coronary bypass and lung surgery was performed in 3 patients. Through a median sternotomy or a left thoracotomy, bypass grafting was performed on beating heart or under cardiopulmonary bypass, followed by the lung operation. The lung lesion was diagnosed as carcinoma in 2 patients and hydatid cyst in 1 patient. With few exceptions, beating heart coronary bypass through a median sternotomy can be performed in a combined operation.