Percutaneous coronary intervention-lobectomy for Lung Cancer hybrid surgery: an initial case series.

Background: For patients diagnosed with both lung cancer and severe coronary heart disease (CHD), the conflict between revascularization and lung cancer surgery remains to be settled to balance how to attenuate the cardiovascular risk for lung surgery and shorten the waiting time of anti-platelet therapy after revascularization. This study presents the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI)-lobectomy for lung cancer hybrid surgery (PLHS), and its antithrombotic therapeutic strategy.

Methods: From October 2020 to June 2023, 14 patients, with unstable angina and resectable lung cancer received PLHS. All procedures were performed in a hybrid operating room. Drug-eluting stents (DES) were implanted during PCI. Lobectomy was carried out within one hour after PCI.

Results: Procedural success was 100%. All the patients subjected to PLHS were alive after 12 months of follow-up; 2 patients (14.29%) died due to distant metastasis within 12-24 months post-PLHS. There were no intraoperative complications, or 30-day- and 3-month-mortality. Except for one patient who suffered pneumothorax, no other postoperative complications, including severe bleeding, or in-stent restenosis, occurred in the 31.7 ± 10.9 months follow-up.

Conclusions: PLHS is a feasible and potentially safe option for patients with both lung cancer and severe CHD.