The use of covered nitinol stents to salvage dialysis grafts after multiple failures

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 275-279

  Naoum, Joseph J ^a   Irwin, Chance ^a   Hunter, Glenn C ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITINOL; POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PATCH ANGIOPLASTY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; STENT; THROMBECTOMY; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33749001183     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538574406291803     Document Type: Review

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