Appendix:
This manuscript was written on behalf of the EXCITE ISR Investigators which included
Jon Robken, MD, and Nicolas Shammas, MD, Genesis Health System, Davenport, IA;
Ulrich Luft, MD, Deborah Heart & Lung Center, Browns Mill, NJ; Jeffrey Goldstein, MD,
and Gregory Mishkel, MD, Prairie Heart Institute – St. John’s Hospital, Springfield, IL;
Jeffrey Stewart, MD, David Mego, MD, Ian Cawich, MD and Lonnie Harrison, MD,
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Little Rock, AR; Wail Asfour, MD, Cardiology Associates of
Northwest Indiana, Muster, IN; Agostino Ingraldi, MD and Louis Salvaggio, MD,
Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Lafayette, LA; Brian Nelson, MD, Wheaton
Franciscan Healthcare, Wauwatosa, WI; Thomas Shimshak, MD, Wheaton Franciscan
Healthcare – All Saints, Racine, WI; Rahul Sakhuja, MD, Wellmont CVA Heart Institute,
Kingsport, TN; Grayson Wheatley, MD, Julio Rodriguez, MD and Venkatesh Ramaiah,
MD, Arizona Heart Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Nelson Bernardo, MD, Washington Hospital
Center, Washington D.C.; Kenneth Kollmeyer, MD and Pablo Uceda, MD, DFW
Vascular Group, Dallas, TX; Jack Chamberlin, MD, Cardiovascular Associates, Elk
Grove Village, IL; Tony Das, MD, CIVA, Dallas, TX; Robert Foster, MD and James
Trimm, MD, Birmingham Heart Clinic, Birmingham, AL; Robert Gallino, MD, MedStar
Health – Cardiovascular Associates, Olney, MD; John Laird, MD, UC Davis Health
System, Sacramento, CA; Frank Bunch, MD, Cardiovascular Associates of Mobile, Inc.,
Fairhope, AL; Anjan Gupta, MD, Aurora Cardiovascular Services at St. Luke’s,
Milwaukee, WI; Jean Panneton, MD, and Deepak Deshmukh, DO, Sentara Heart
Hospital, Norfolk, VA; Donald Jacobs, MD, St. Louis University Hospital – Care Vascular
Surgery, St. Louis, MO; Antonis Pratsos, MD, Sean Janzer, MD, and Sarang
Mangalmurti, MD, Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, PA; Anvar Babaev, MD, New York
University Hospital Center, New York City, NY; William Eaves, MD, Cardiovascular
Consultants, Bossier, LA; Robert Wilkins, Hattiesburg Clinic, MD, Hattiesburg, MS;
Wayne Falcone, MD, Providence Health Center, Waco, TX; David Weatherford, MD,
Coastal Surgery Specialists, Wilmington, NC; Jihad Mustapha, MD and Barbara
Karenko, DO, Metro Health Hospital, Wyoming, MI; John Colleran, DO, St. Vincent
Heart Clinic Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; Edwin Pérez Marrero, MD, Transcatheter
Medical Inc., Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; Juan Pastor-Cervantes, MD, Research
Physician’s Network Alliance, Hollywood, FL; M. Laiq Raja, MD, El Paso Cardiac &
Endovascular Center, El Paso, TX; Marcel Zughaib, MD, St. John Providence Hospital,
Southfield, MI; Kalyan Veerina, MD, Robert Menuet, MD, and Jayaraman Venkatesan,
MD, Cardiovascular Institute of the South Opelousas, Opelousas, LA; Robert Lookstein,
MD and Ageliki Vouyouka, MD, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; Mario
Rossbach, MD, Jason Yoho, MD and Rahul Bose, MD, Mission Research Institute, New
Braunfels, TX; Jeff Carr, MD and Richard Lowry, MD, Cardiovascular Associates of
East Texas, Tyler, TX; Arthur Lee, MD, James O’Meara, MD and Daniel Van Roy, MD,
Cardiovascular Research of North Florida LLC, Gainesville, FL.