Does the surgeon's experience impact on radiocephalic fistula patency rates?

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 455-457

  Fassiadis, Nicholas ^b   Morsy, Mohamed ^b   Siva, Mayooran ^b   Marsh, James E ^c   Makanjuola, A David ^c   Chemla, Eric S ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ST HELIER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIAL ARTERY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34748865509     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00310.x     Document Type: Article

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