Functional and structural response of arterialized femoral veins in a rodent AV fistula model

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2201-2206

  Langer, Stephan ^a   Heiss, Christian ^b   Paulus, Niklas ^a   Bektas, Nuran ^c   Mommertz, Gottfried ^a   Rowinska, Zuzanna ^a   Westenfeld, Ralf ^b   Jacobs, Michael J ^a,d   Fries, Michael ^c   Koeppel, Thomas A ^a  

^a Department of Vascular Surgery ^*  (Germany)

^b Department of Medicine i

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AV fistula; Maturation; Neointimal hyperplasia; Rat model; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; FLOW RATE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MODEL; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SURVIVAL; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN DIAMETER;

ANIMALS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 67651091749     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfp033     Document Type: Article

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