of PLM. Two discussion events were held in 2015, each consisting of three to four prompted posts to start discussions among members of the T2DM community. Each post was reviewed prior to fielding by a patient advisor, an active patient member of PLM with T2DM who had previously expressed interest to PLM in advising research projects. Discussions were open for 2--3 weeks each, and any member of PLM who visited the T2DM forum was eligible to post a message in the discussion.

Online forum recruitment was augmented through direct messages sent to all patients with T2DM through the PLM private message system. For each of the two events, three types of messages were sent. The first was an introduction to the upcoming event with a general description of thethe possibility of premature release of adhesive from packets that may break during deployment.
The deployment means of the present invention generally comprises an elongated sheath introducer having an axially extending sheath passage for slidably receiving the graft and maintaining the graft and associated spring means in a radially compressed pre-loaded condition prior to deployment of the graft within the vessel lumen, an elongated insertion catheter received within the sheath passage and pre-loaded graft for use in guiding the graft to the location of the aneurysm and deploying the graft within the vessel lumen at such location, and a flexible condensing spring push rod slidably arranged about the insertion catheter and received within the sheath passage to abut with the graft for navigating through tortuous vessels and pushing the