Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 33-37.e1 , January 2010

Relationship between access side used to deliver the main body of bifurcated prostheses for endovascular aneurysm repair and speed of cannulation of the contralateral limb

  • Wilfred Dang, BHSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Michael Kilian, BHSc

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Mark D. Peterson, MD, PhD, FRCSC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Claudio Cinà, MD, FRCSC

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Claudio S. Cinà, MD, Professor of Surgery, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, 55 Queen St. E. # 308, Toronto, On, Canada M5C 1R6

Received 16 June 2009 ,Accepted 2 August 2009.

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 Dr Cinà has been paid a consulting fee by Cook and Vascutek Companies and is on their speakers' bureau.

 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)01616-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2009.08.003

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 51, Issue 1 , Pages 33-37.e1 , January 2010

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