Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 1255-1264.e4 , December 2009

A multicenter clinical trial of endovascular stent graft repair of acute catastrophes of the descending thoracic aorta

Presented in part at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, Baltimore, MD, June 7-10, 2007.

  • Richard P. Cambria, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Richard P. Cambria, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman St, WAC 440, Boston, MA, 02114
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  • Robert S. Crawford, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Jae-Sung Cho, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa
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  • Joseph Bavaria, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa
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  • Mark Farber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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  • W. Anthony Lee, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Fla
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  • Venkatesh Ramaiah, MD

      Affiliations

    • Arizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, Ariz
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  • Christopher J. Kwolek, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • GORE TAG Investigators

Received 6 May 2009 ,Accepted 25 July 2009.

 Competition of interest: Joseph Bavaria is a primary investigator for WL Gore and is on their speaker's bureau. Richard Cambria has received research support to conduct this trial, and as principle investigator has received intermittent consulting fees. The study was funded by W.L. Gore Company. Mark Farber has been paid a consulting fee by Medtronic, WL Gore, Book, and Bolton Medical. Christopher Kwolek is a consultant for Medtronic and is on the speaker's bureau for Cook Medical.

 Additional material for this article may be found online at www.jvascsurg.org.

 The editors and reviewers of this article have no relevant financial relationships to disclose per the JVS policy that requires reviewers to decline review of any manuscript for which they may have a competition of interest.

PII: S0741-5214(09)01575-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.07.104

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 50, Issue 6 , Pages 1255-1264.e4 , December 2009

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