Adding access blood flow surveillance to clinical monitoring reduces thrombosis rates and costs, and improves fistula patency in the short term: A controlled cohort study

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3578-3584

  Tessitore, Nicola ^a,b   Bedogna, Valeria ^a   Poli, Albino ^a   Mantovani, William ^a   Lipari, Giovanni ^a   Baggio, Elda ^a   Mansueto, Giancarlo ^a   Lupo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Access blood flow surveillance; Access loss; Arteriovenous fistula; Monitoring; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENOSIS; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; ARM; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; KIDNEY DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 54149109407     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfn275     Document Type: Article

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