Does a fibrin sheath formed around a catheter embolize upon removal of the catheter? [11]

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3677-3679

  Oguzkurt, Levent ^a   Ozkan, Ugur ^a   Torun, Dilek ^a   Tercan, Fahri ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; IOPROMIDE; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; POLYURETHAN;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETER REMOVAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FIBRIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 36748998979     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfm536     Document Type: Letter

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