Questions about graft surveillance [3]

Kidney International

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2401-2402

  Allon, Michael ^a,b   Robbin, Michelle L ^a  

^a University of Alabama Medical School ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LETTER; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

DIABETIC NEPHROPATHIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; RENAL DIALYSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 30944437509     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2005.00704_3.x     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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2. LUMSDEN AB, MACDONALD MJ, KIKERI D, et al: Prophylactic ballon angioplasty fails to prolong the patency of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene arteriovenous grafts: Results of a prospective randomized study. J Vasc Surg 26:382-392, 1997
3. RAM SJ, WORK J, CALDITO GC, et al: A randomized controlled trial of blood flow and stenosis surveillance of hemodialysis grafts. Kidney Int 64:272-280, 2003