Managing the Complications of Long-Term Tunneled Dialysis Catheters

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 314-322

  Schon, Donald ^a,c   Whittman, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c c/o AKDHC Surgery Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRIN; HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CATHETER INFECTION; COMPLICATION; DIALYSIS; DRUG COST; DRUG SAFETY; FIBRIN FORMATION; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEPHROLOGY; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; STENOSIS; THORACOTOMY; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBUS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 0242331143     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-139x.2003.16060.x     Document Type: Review

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