Comparative efficacy of pulse-spray thrombolysis and angioplasty versus surgical salvage procedures for treatment of recurrent occlusion of PTFE dialysis access grafts

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 314-318

  Polak, Joseph F ^a   Berger, Markus F ^b   Pagan Marin, Heriberto ^c   Aruny, John E ^d   Meyerovitz, Michael F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Bon Secours DePaul Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Dialysis; Thrombectomy; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; POLITEF; UROKINASE;

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECURRENCE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031855728     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002709900267     Document Type: Article

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