The Need of Research Initiatives Amidst and After the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Message from the Editors of the EJVES

We write this editorial while many are facing the greatest turmoil within healthcare since the Second World War. Covid-19 impacts our patients, ourselves, and our profession in many different ways. For instance, never before have the advantages of minimally invasive possibilities been more obvious. Even major aortic surgery can be performed without a need for intensive care in many cases. Between 1999 and 2013, the proportion of patients who...