Approach to patients with end-stage renal disease who need an arteriovenous fistula

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 5, 2003, Pages

  Malovrh, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistula; Blood flow; Duplex sonography

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY VEIN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; RENOGRAPHY; STRESS; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN COMPLIANCE;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042812529     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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