Results of aggressive graft surveillance and endovascular treatment on secondary patency rates of Vectra Vascular Access Grafts

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 974-980

  Kakkos, Stavros K ^a   Haddad, Roger ^a   Haddad, Georges K ^a   Reddy, Daniel J ^a   Nypaver, Timothy J ^a   Lin, Judith C ^a   Shepard, Alexander D ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY STEAL SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEOLYTIC THROMBECTOMY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STENT; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34247386352     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2007.01.011     Document Type: Article

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