Salvage of a severely dysfunctional arteriovenous fistula with a strictured and occluded outflow tract

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 336-342

  Achkar, Katafan ^a,b   Nassar, George M ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kidney Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 23844435948     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2005.18409.x     Document Type: Article

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