Response to letter to the editor: additional insights into the outcomes after combined heart-lung surgery

Abstract

We recently documented the outcomes of our centers’ concomitant off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and pulmonary operations. As we mentioned in our manuscript, each of these patients was discussed at multiple councils with cardiac and thoracic surgery teams. These patients were also followed by their primary cardiology and pulmonology attending physicians during pre- and postoperative period, most of the these patients were followed by Oncology Department on long-term follow-up.