Second harvest of Congenital Heart Surgery Database in Türkiye: Current outcomes.

Background: This second harvest of the Congenital Heart Surgery Database intended to compare current results with international databases.

Methods: This retrospective study examined a total of 4007 congenital heart surgery procedures from 15 centers in the Congenital Heart Surgery Database between January 2018 and January 2023. International diagnostic and procedural codes were used for data entry.

Surgical resection for successful treatment of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis: report of 3 cases.

We present 3 patients, 2 with recent heart transplants, complicated with invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), treated successfully with surgical resection. These patients demonstrate the role of surgery in management of IPA, and 2 heart transplant patients are of particular interest as surgical treatment of IPA after solid organ transplantation is seldom reported.