Patency rates and complications of exxcel yarn-wrapped polytetrafluoroethylene grafts verses gore-tex stretch polyletrafluoroethylene grafts: A prospective study

Surgery Today

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 409-412

  Ko, Po Jen ^a   Hsieh, Hung Chang ^a   Chu, Jaw Ji ^a   Lin, Pyng Jing ^a   Liu, Yun Hen ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dialysis graft; Exxcel; Gore tex; Patency rate

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIFE TABLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RENAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 2442471983     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2728-7     Document Type: Article

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