Dear colleagues,
Abstract
Original
articles on impact of the novel coronavirus infection COVID-19 on the course
and outcomes of treating surgical patients who are already prone to particular
complications open this issue of our journal. The general development aspect of
this formidable multisystem damage disease has been researched in sufficient
detail. Meanwhile, data on surgical treatment in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
are considerably less in available publications. Eventually, such combination
results in increasing the number of patients with severe disease who are admitted
to hospitals, suffering from emergency surgical pathology. It is not for the
first time that our journal responds to the doctors’ need to share this unusual
work experience. Despite the virus pandemic intensity decreases, it is not
unlikely that we will have to consider its consequences in our routine surgical
practice for a rather long time.
Enjoy
reading!
Editor-in-Chief Cardiac Surgeon Sergey Dzemeshkevich