Thresholds for significant decrease in hemodialysis access blood flow

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 558-564

  Ram, Sunanda J ^a   Nassar, Raja ^b   Sharaf, Rashid ^a   Magnasco, Alberto ^c   Jones, Steven A ^b   Paulson, William D ^d  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^b Louisiana Tech University   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; RENAL DIALYSIS;

EID: 30744446466     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2005.00104.x     Document Type: Article

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