Is surgical salvage of arteriovenous grafts feasible after unsuccessful percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy?

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 174-177

  Maya, Ivan D ^b   Smith, Tamorie ^b   Young, Carlton J ^c   Allon, Michael ^a,b  

^a Division of Nephrology   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 40849094327     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2007.00397.x     Document Type: Article

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