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  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    1Gianmarco de Donato, MD, 2Gualberto Gussoni, MD, 1Carlo Setacci, MD, 3Gaetano de Donato, MD; on behalf of @the ILAILL Study Group

    Author Affiliations:

    From the 1Department of Surgery, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Unit, University of Siena; 2FADOI Study Center, Roma; 3Department of Surgery, Vascular Surgery Unit, San Giovanni Bosco Hospital, II University of Naples, Italy.

    @The ILAILL Study Group participants are listed in the Appendix.

  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    Author Affiliations:

    From New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY.

    Correspondence: Nicholas J. Morrissey, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Columbia/Weill Cornell Division of Vascular Surgery, the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Irving Pavilion 639, 161 Fort Washington Ave, New York, NY 10032. E-mail: njm2106@columbia.edu.

    Disclosure: The author reports no financial relationships or conflicts of interest regarding the content therein.

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  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    Author Affiliations:

    From the 1Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain and 2Eurostar Data Registry Center, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

    Correspondence: Vincent Riambau, MD, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Vascular Surgery, Villarroel 170, Barcelona, Spain 08036. E-mail: riambau@meditex.ese.

    Manuscript submitted August 24, 2008, provisional acceptance given September 30, accepted October 20, 2008.

    Disclosure: The authors report no financial relationship or conflicts of interest regarding the content therein.

  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    1Jeffrey H. Freihage, MD, 2Aravinda Nanjundappa, MD, RVT, 3Pranab Das, MD, 1Robert S. Dieter, MD, RVT

    Author Affiliations:

    From 1Loyola University, Maywood, Illinois, 2East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, and 3Memphis Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee.

    Correspondence: Robert S. Dieter, MD, RVT, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Vascular and Endovascular Medicine, Interventional Cardiology, Loyola University, 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, IL 60153.

    E-mail: rdieter@lumc.edu.

  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    Author Affiliations:

    From the Department of Angiology, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Bad Krozingen, Germany (TZ) and the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Tuebingen, Germany.
    Correspondence: Dr. Thomas Zeller, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Südring 15, D-79189 Bad Krozingen, Germany. E-mail address: thomas.zeller@herzzentrum.de.

    Manuscript submitted July 17, 2008, provisional acceptance given August 18, 2008, manuscript accepted September 5, 2008.

  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    1Tarun W. Dasari, MD, MPH, 2Mazen S. Abu-Fadel, MD, 2Jorge Saucedo, MD

    Author Affiliations:

    From the 1Department of Internal Medicine, 2Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

    Correspondence: Mazen Abu-Fadel, MD, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, 920 Stanton L. Young Blvd, WP 3010, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
    E-mail: mazen-abufadel@ouhsc.edu.

  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    Author Affiliations:

    From the Department of Surgery, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, New York.

    Correspondence: Bala Gangadhara Thatigotla, MD, Department of General Surgery, Apt 4A, 1650 Sellwyn Avenue, Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center, Bronx, NY 10457. Email: laba50@yahoo.com.

    Manuscript submitted July 30, 2008, provisional acceptance given September 3, 2008, accepted October 10, 2008.

    Disclosure: The authors report no financial relationships or conflicts of interest regarding the content therein.

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    Abstract

  • Issue Number: 
    6 Nov/Dec 08

    Frank J. Criado, Editor-in-Chief

    Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Intervention; Union Memorial Hospital/MedStar Health, Baltimore, Maryland

    frank.criado@medstar.net

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    “… the procedure is expected to greatly reduce the demand for a common operation in which surgeons slice open the neck and scrape the carotids clean from earlobe to collarbone”.

    “The shift to angioplasty has drawn fervent opposition from surgeons who question angioplasty’s long-term effectiveness and safety…They also stand to lose a major source of income…”1


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