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cord-308702-90a4dj76	Hussain, Azhar	Cardiac surgery in patients with confirmed COVID‐19 infection: Early experience	2020-06-12		.txt	text/plain	612	47	46	The decision to operate in urgent patients with active/recent COVID‐19 infection is difficult to make, particularly as it is still an unknown disease entity in the setting of emergent cardiac surgery. We present a case series of three patients who underwent urgent cardiac surgery and who have had recent or active COVID‐19 infection. 1 The decision to operate in urgent patients with active/recent COVID-19 infection is difficult to make as it is an unknown disease entity with outcomes of emergent cardiac surgery difficult to predict. We present a case series of three patients who underwent urgent cardiac surgery who have had recent or active COVID-19 infection. Clinical examination suggested aortic stenosis and past medical history was significant for type His medical history was significant for hyOur third case highlights the importance of a CT thorax as part of our routine preoperative cardiac surgical workup during this pandemic. Stability issues of RT-PCR testing of SARS-CoV-2 for hospitalized patients clinically diagnosed with COVID-19	./cache/cord-308702-90a4dj76.txt	./txt/cord-308702-90a4dj76.txt