Timing of first cannulation of arteriovenous fistula: Time matters, but there is also something else [9]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1519-1520

  Basile, Carlo ^a   Casucci, Francesco ^a   Lomonte, Carlo ^a  

^a MIULLI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIAL ARTERY; UREMIA; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; CATHETERIZATION; ECHOGRAPHY; INDWELLING CATHETER; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TIME;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26044479128     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh847     Document Type: Letter

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