Regular monitoring of access flow compared with monitoring of venous pressure fails to improve graft survival

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2645-2653

  Moist, Louise M ^a,c   Churchill, David N ^b   House, Andrew A ^a   Millward, Steven F ^a   Elliott, James E ^a   Kribs, Stewart W ^a   Deyoung, William J ^a   Blythe, Lesley ^b   Stitt, Lawrence W ^a   Lindsay, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STENOSIS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0141566810     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ASN.0000089562.98338.60     Document Type: Article

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