Detection of Imminent Vein Graft Occlusion: What is the Optimal Surveillance Program?

Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 252-260

  Tinder, Chelsey N ^a   Bandyk, Dennis F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; GRAFT PERFUSION; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIMB ISCHEMIA; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STENOSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VEIN GRAFT;

ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 71549119168     PISSN: 08957967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semvascsurg.2009.10.008     Document Type: Article

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