Elliot L. Chaikof1,2,3,4,5, Peter H. Lin1,2,3,4,5, William T. Brinkman1,2,3,4,5, Thomas F. Dodson1,2,3,4,5, Victor J. Weiss1,2,3,4,5, Alan B. Lumsden1,2,3,4,5, Thomas T. Terramani1,2,3,4,5, Sasan Najibi1,2,3,4,5, Ruth L. Bush1,2,3,4,5, Atef A. Salam1,2,3,4,5, Robert B. Smith1,2,3,4,5
1Accepted for publication December 2001.
2Dr. Chaikof has been paid a consulting fee and received clinical research funding from Guidant. Dr. Lumsden has been paid a consulting fee and received clinical research funding from Meditronic and W. L. Gore.
3e-mail: [email protected]
4From the Division of Vascular Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
5Presented at the 113th Annual Session of the Southern Surgical Association, December 3–5, 2001, Hot Springs, Virginia.