Regarding “The value of late computed tomographic scanning in identification of vascular abnormalities after abdominal aortic aneurysm repair”

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few vascular technologists who were concerned about the performance of this examination and more than a few patients who complained about it.We certainly would not deny the validity of the physiologic observations Dr Gee had made, particularly regarding the medical student exhausted after his or her study of (we hope) arterial anatomy. In light of his observations, it may indeed be beneficial to distribute OPGs to our medical students for ocular relaxation. I know we have at least two in our laboratory that we are not using, and I would be glad to contribute to such an excellent cause.The ocular flow velocity data were recorded from contralateral eyes of all patients but were not analyzed in this report. There was a wide variety of contralateral carotid disease that would have made interpretation of these data difficult and certainly not possible to be stratified on the basis of sex and the small number of patients. Nevertheless, in the evaluation of normative values in our laboratory, we have noted no identifiable differences in ophthalmic artery or central retinal artery flow velocities between the sexes.