Aggressive approach to salvage non-maturing arteriovenous fistulae: A retrospective study with follow-up

Journal of Vascular Access

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-191

  Miller, Gregg A ^a,e   Goel, Naveen ^b   Khariton, Aleksandr ^a   Friedman, Alexander ^a   Savransky, Yevgeny ^c   Trusov, Ilya ^a   Jotwani, Kiran ^d   Savransky, Eric ^a   Preddie, Dean ^a   Arnold, William Perry ^a  

^a American Access Care of Brooklyn   (United States)

^b American Access Care of Florida   (United States)

^c American Access Care of Bellmore   (United States)

^d American Access Care of Queens   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Arteriovenous fistula; Dialysis; ESRD; Fistula maturation; Salvage; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN RUPTURE; ARM; BLOOD FLOW; ECHOGRAPHY; GRAFT OCCLUSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; UPPER EXTREMITY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 70350723609     PISSN: 11297298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/112972980901000309     Document Type: Article

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