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cord-298079-hgdyxk98	Hsu, Jeffrey J.	Heart Transplantation in the Early Phase of the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Single‐Center Case Series	2020-07-12		.txt	text/plain	2096	126	53	Here, we describe our center's experience with orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT) in one of the country's pandemic epicenters, where we performed eight OHTs in the first two months after community spread began in late February 2020. 3 Further, the effects of SARS-CoV-2 in highly immunosuppressed patients in the early post-transplant period are currently unclear. Current recommendations from the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) is for all potential donors to undergo PCR-based testing for SARS-CoV-2. In our eight cases performed during the period of pandemic onset (Table) , none have become infected with SARS-CoV-2 to date, despite the growing number of cases in Los Angeles (Figure 1) . Similarly, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a patient with a newly transplanted cardiac graft is unclear, as to our knowledge, there are have yet to be any cases reported at the time of this communication. More evidence is needed to determine the risks of SARS-CoV-2 infection in newly transplanted patients.	./cache/cord-298079-hgdyxk98.txt	./txt/cord-298079-hgdyxk98.txt