Flow monitoring: Performance characteristics of ultrasound dilution versus color Doppler ultrasound compared with fistulography

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 539-545

  Schwarz, Christoph ^b   Mitterbauer, Christa ^b   Boczula, Maryla ^b   Maca, Thomas ^b   Funovics, Martin ^b   Heinze, Georg ^b   Lorenz, Matthias ^b   Kovarik, Josef ^b   Oberbauer, Rainer ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Fistulography; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC); Restenosis; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA STENOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FISTULOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESTENOSIS; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND DILUTION TECHNIQUE; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 0042360242     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0272-6386(03)00786-8     Document Type: Article

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