A description of the correction of data error and the direction of in-depth research
First of all, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to Dai et al. for their comments and corrections on this article (1,2).
Secondly, the 1.65 treatments appearing in the results should be corrected to 2.59 treatments. We sincerely apologize for this error, and hope the editors would correct this as soon as possible. However, there is no impact on the reliability of the article’s conclusion with this correction.
Thirdly, as a descriptive study, this article only described and summarized the results of the surgical success rate and postoperative complication rate of cases undergoing the brachial artery (TBA) approach, and preliminarily explained the feasibility and safety of this surgical method. More in-depth and rigorous clinical studies are indeed needed, which has been mentioned in the limitations of the study.
Finally, the study needs to expand the sample size in the future, collect more indicators such as patients’ basic conditions and status of the disease, evaluation on the comfort level, time and dose of radiation exposure to the surgeon and the patient, then to conduct a randomized controlled trial with the surgical method in the traditional transfemoral approach (TFA), and provide actual surgical pictures, to fully explain the safety and advantages of the surgical method and provide reference for clinical practice.
Thanks again to Dai et al. for their comments and corrections and to the editors for their work!
Acknowledgments
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