Does monthly native arteriovenous fistula blood-flow surveillance detect significant stenosis - A randomized controlled trial

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2498-2506

  Polkinghorne, Kevan R ^a   Lau, Kenneth K P ^a   Saunder, Alan ^a   Atkins, Robert C ^a   Kerr, Peter G ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access blood flow; Native fistula; Randomized trial; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DILUTION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCREENING TEST; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750140967     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfl242     Document Type: Article

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