• Lucas Hoyos Mejía, Alejandra Romero Román, Mariana Gil Barturen, Maria Del Mar Córdoba Pelaez, José Luis Campo-Cañaveral de la Cruz, José Manuel Naranjo, Silvana Crolwey Carrasco, Shin Tanaka, Alvaro Sánchez Calle, Andrés Varela de Ugarte, and David Gómez de Antonio.
• Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain.
• Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2020 Nov 1; 58 (5): 991-996.

ObjectivesWe reviewed the incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 cases and the postoperative outcomes of patients who had thoracic surgery during the beginning and at the highest point of transmission in our community.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed patients who had undergone elective thoracic surgery from 12 February 2020 to 30 April 2020 and were symptomatic or tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection within 14 days after surgery, with a focus on their complications and potential deaths.ResultsOut of 101 surgical procedures, including 57 primary oncological resections, 6 lung transplants and 18 emergency procedures, only 5 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 were identified, 3 in the immediate postoperative period and 2 as outpatients. All 5 patients had cancer; the median age was 64 years. The main virus-related symptom was fever (80%), and the median onset of coronavirus disease 2019 was 3 days. Although 80% of the patients who had positive test results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 required in-hospital care, none of them were considered severe or critical and none died.ConclusionsThese results indicate that, in properly selected cases, with short preoperative in-hospital stays, strict isolation and infection control protocols, managed by a dedicated multidisciplinary team, a surgical procedure could be performed with a relatively low risk for the patient.© The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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