Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Hospital and Adult Thrombosis Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Paul L Foster School of Medicine, El Paso, TX, USA.
• ² Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• ³ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of California San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA.
• ⁴ Eastern Vascular Associates, Denville, NJ, USA.
• ⁵ Johns Hopkins Center for Vascular Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.