Dialysis graft declotting with very low dose urokinase: Is it feasible to use 'less and wait?'

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2 I, 1999, Pages 123-128

  Duszak Jr , Richard ^a   Sacks, David ^a  

^a READING HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialysis, shunts; Grafts, thrombosis; Thrombolysis; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 0345004137     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-0443(99)70453-7     Document Type: Article

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