“…In this issue of the Turkish Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Aksu et al[ 6 ] and Venckus et al[ 7 ] reported consequences of having perioperative COVID-19 in patients undergoing CVSI. In both of the studies comparing patients without postoperative COVID-19 infection, patients who developed COVID-19 after CVSI had higher risks of longer hospitalization, resternotomy for bleeding, wound infection, pneumonia, and fatality.…”