Smooth muscle changes in the cephalic vein of renal failure patients before use as an arteriovenous fistula (AVF)

Journal of Smooth Muscle Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 75-85

  Wali, Mahmoud A ^a   Eid, Refaat A ^a   Al Homrany, Mohammad A ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF); Hemodialysis; Renal failure; Smooth muscle cells (SMCs); Transmission electron microscope (TEM)

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN;

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CEPHALIC VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ELASTIC FIBER; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTIMA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THROMBOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VEINS;

EID: 0036626093     PISSN: 09168737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1540/jsmr.38.75     Document Type: Article

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