Creation of secondary arteriovenous fistulas: Maximizing fistulas in prevalent hemodialysis patients

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 420-424

  Asif, Arif ^a   Unger, Stephen W ^b   Briones, Patricia ^a   Merrill, Donna ^a   Cherla, Gautam ^a   Lenz, Oliver ^a   Roth, David ^a   Pennell, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Miami Beach FL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEINS;

EID: 27544483145     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2005.00080.x     Document Type: Article

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