Abstract:Heart disease and cancer are often found simultaneously in the same patient, and may require cardiac and non-cardiac surgery. Cancer may be part of the past medical history; in other cases the presence of an active malignancy makes the clinical management more complex. No general evidence-based recommendations are available to help in the decision-making process. Because of the lack of specific guidelines we provided a series of possible scenarios describing not unusual cases. We focused on cases where the con… Show more
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