Graft surveillance and angioplasty prolongs dialysis graft patency

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 486-492

  Roberts, Andrew B ^a,d   Kahn, Mark B ^b   Bradford, Susan ^a   Lee, Jean ^a   Ahmed, Ziauddin ^a   Fitzsimmons, Jack ^a   Ball, David ^a,c  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FISTULOGRAPHY; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VEIN DILATATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0029802383     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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