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Editorial 10.5005/wjols-15-1-v

I am happy to write this editorial of World Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery issue of January–April 2022, Volume 15,
Number 1. As I am writing my first editor’s letter of the year 2022, I cannot help but look back and wonder, where
did 2021 go? After the short, sharp shock of Omicron, the pandemic phase of COVID-19 looks to be ending for
most locations, unless a significant and severe new variant emerges. In this issue Short-term Outcomes after
Bariatric Surgery during the COVID-19 Pandemic is an interesting article.
I am thankful that in the past year we published many interesting articles in WJOLS. In this first issue of
2022, we have many interesting articles regarding laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Factors Affecting Conversion
of Laparoscopic cholecystectomy to Open Surgery and Study of Difficult Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
and Its Outcome According to Preoperative Scoring System are interesting articles you must go through. For
gynecologists, Laparoscopic Management of Uncommon Presentations of Ectopic Pregnancy is an interesting article.
Prospects for the rest of the year and beyond hinge on the questions of whether and when future variants will emerge. We might
then expect to see a seasonality-driven wave of disease by next fall of winter, but I am sure that hospitalizations would likely peak well
below the level of the wave we just experienced. A new variant may yet trigger another chapter in the COVID-19 pandemic and societies
must be prepared to respond if and when that happens. But for now, the pandemic phase looks to be ending.
We should pray for those with the coronavirus, those who care for them, and our doctor friends those who are suffering from anxiety
during this stressful time.
RK Mishra
Editor-in-Chief
Chairman
World Laparoscopy Hospital
Gurugram, Haryana, India

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