About the Authors

Khalid Bashar

khalid@live.ie

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Limerick (UHL), Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Donagh Healy

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Limerick (UHL), Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Mary Clarke-Moloney

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Limerick (UHL), Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Paul Burke

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Limerick (UHL), Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Eamon Kavanagh

Affiliation Department of Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Limerick (UHL), Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland

Stewart-Redmond Walsh

Affiliation Department of surgery, National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Galway, County Galway, Ireland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KB SW DH MC-M EK PB. Performed the experiments: KB SW DH MC-M EK PB. Analyzed the data: KB DH SW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KB DH SW MC-M. Wrote the paper: KB SW DH MC-M EK PB.