Percutaneous laser-facilitated thrombectomy: An innovative, easily applied, and effective therapeutic option for recanalization of acute and subacute thrombotic hemodialysis shunt occlusions

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 603-608

  Dahm, Johannes Bruno ^a   Ruppert, Joerg ^b   Doerr, Marcus ^b   Bordihn, Nils ^b   Maybauer, Werner ^b  

^a Clinic Neu Bethlehem ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistulas; Excimer laser angioplasty; Hemodialysis shunts; Recanalization; Thrombotic occlusion

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD VESSEL PERFORATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FISTULOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LASER ANGIOPLASTY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, LASER-ASSISTED; ARM; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33750996124     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/06-1829MR.1     Document Type: Article

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