Bipan Chand, MD
Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
David Gugliotti, MD
Department of General Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Philip Schauer, MD
Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Karen Steckner, MD
Department of General Anesthesiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Correspondence: Philip Schauer, MD, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, A80, Cleveland, OH 44195; schauep@ccf.org
Dr. Chand reported that he is a consultant for the Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Gore, and Sanofi-Aventis corporations.
Dr. Schauer reported that he has received grant support from the US Surgical, Stryker, Ethicon, Inamed, Gore, and Baxter corporations.
Drs. Gugliotti and Steckner reported that they have no financial relationships that pose a potential conflict of interest with this article.
