Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece - paraskevask@hotmail.com.
• ² First Chair and Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland - paraskevask@hotmail.com.
• ³ Division of Surgery and Interventional Science, Department of Surgical Biotechnology, University College London Medical School, University College London, London, UK.
• ⁴ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Free Hospital Campus, University College London, London, UK.
• ⁵ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Therapy, Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Health System, Maywood, IL, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Vascular Surgery, Baltimore VA Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁸ Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Radiology, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medical Science and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ¹¹ Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹² Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ¹³ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Clinical Surgical and Health Sciences, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy.
• ¹⁴ Founder of the Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery and Residency Program in Vascular Surgery, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
• ¹⁵ Department of Surgical and Integrated Diagnostic Sciences, Clinic of Vascular Endovascular Surgery, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.
• ¹⁶ Head, Neck and Neuroscience Department, UOSD Stroke Unit, San Camillo Forlanini Hospital, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁷ Vascular Surgery Division, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁸ Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Vascular Diseases, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ²⁰ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ²¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Republican Vilnius University Hospital, Vilnius University, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• ²² Department of Vascular Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico Multimedica, Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy.
• ²³ Department of Medicine and Cardiology, The John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• ²⁴ The Ochsner Clinical School, University of Queensland School of Medicine, Brisbane, Australia.
• ²⁵ Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Jagellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
• ²⁶ St. John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
• ²⁷ Department of Internal Medicine, Hypertension and Vascular Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
• ²⁸ Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary.
• ²⁹ Vascular Surgery Division, Clinics Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ³⁰ Department of Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
• ³¹ Department of Vascular Surgery and Angiology, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• ³² IRCCS Multimedica, Milan, Italy.
• ³³ Laboratory of Immunology and General Pathology, Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy.
• ³⁴ Unit of Neurology, Neurophysiology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Campus Bio-Medico University, Rome, Italy.
• ³⁵ Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Western Vascular Institute, University Hospital Galway, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.
• ³⁶ Division of Vascular Surgery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
• ³⁷ Mid and South Essex Vascular Unit, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Basildon, UK.
• ³⁸ Medical Technology Research Centre and School of Medicine, Anglia Ruskin University London, Chelmsford, UK.
• ³⁹ Department of Neurology and Stroke Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Division of Vascular Surgery, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, PA, USA.
• ⁴¹ Vascular Surgery, DIMEC, IRCCS S. Orsola Polyclinic Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
• ⁴² Unidade Local de Saude Gaia/Espinho, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁴³ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, North-Western Scientific Clinical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Department of Hospital Surgery, Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
• ⁴⁴ Center of Atherosclerosis and Lipid Disorders, Lab of Microangiopathic Mechanisms of Atherogenesis, Saint-Petersburg State University, Mechnikov's Medical University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
• ⁴⁵ Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Athens Medical Center, Athens, Greece.
• ⁴⁶ Vascular Surgery Unit, Kore University of Enna, Enna, Italy.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Interventional Radiology, Heart and Vascular Center, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
• ⁴⁸ Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁴⁹ First Chair and Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
• ⁵⁰ Department of General, Vascular and Oncological Surgery, Masovian Brodnowski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland.
• ⁵¹ Vascular Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Policlinico 'P. Giaccone', Palermo, Italy.
• ⁵² Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁵³ Vascular Unit, Imperial College NHS Trust London, London, UK.
• ⁵⁴ Smith Center for Outcomes Research, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵⁶ Frederikk Meijer Heart and Vascular Institute, Corewell Health, Grand Rapids, MI, USA.
• ⁵⁷ St. George's Vascular Institute, St. George's University London, London, UK.
• ⁵⁸ Department of Cardiology, Laboratory for Atherosclerosis Research, Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁵⁹ Department of Neurology and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• ⁶⁰ Cardiovascular Center (CCUL), Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁶¹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Hospital da Luz Torres de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁶² Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁶³ Medical Director, SVS Patient Safety Organization Vascular Quality Initiative, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁶⁴ Section of Vascular Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA.
• ⁶⁵ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA.
• ⁶⁶ Neurological Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Marche Polytechnic University, Ancona, Italy.
• ⁶⁷ Department of Neurology, Neurovascular Study Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
• ⁶⁸ Liverpool Center for Cardiovascular Science at University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁶⁹ Danish Center for Health Services Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aaborg University, Aaborg, Denmark.
• ⁷⁰ Department of Cardiology, Lipidology and Internal Medicine with Intensive Coronary Care Unit, Medical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland.
• ⁷¹ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁷² Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
• ⁷³ Center for Learning and Excellent in Vascular & Endovascular Research (CLEVER), University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
• ⁷⁴ Department of Vascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁷⁵ Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷⁶ Department of Surgery, Charleston Area Medical Center/West Virginia University, Charleston, WV, USA.
• ⁷⁷ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁷⁸ Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
• ⁷⁹ Department of Vascular Surgery, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ⁸⁰ Department of Vascular Surgery, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ⁸¹ Vascular Screening and Diagnostic Center, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ⁸² Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
• ⁸³ Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Hospital de S. João, Porto, Portugal.