Clinical validation of glucose pump test (GPT) compared with ultrasound dilution technology in arteriovenous graft surveillance

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1835-1841

  Magnasco, Alberto ^a   Bacchini, Giuseppe ^b   Cappello, Antonio ^b   La Milia, Vincenzo ^b   Brezzi, Brigida ^a   Messa, PierGiorgio ^a   Locatelli, Francesco ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b A MANZONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Colour Doppler ultrasound; Haemodialysis; Ultrasound dilution technology; Vascular access

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE INFUSION; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 3242661623     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfh292     Document Type: Article

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