Stent graft versus balloon angioplasty for failing dialysis-access grafts

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 362, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 494-503

  Haskal, Ziv J ^a   Trerotola, Scott ^b   Dolmatch, Bart ^c   Schuman, Earl ^d   Altman, Sanford ^e   Mietling, Samuel ^f   Berman, Scott ^g   McLennan, Gordon ^h   Trimmer, Clayton ^c   Ross, John ⁱ   Vesely, Thomas ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Oregon Surgical Consultants   (United States)

^e Open Access Vascular Access Center   (United States)

^f Vascular Access Center   (United States)

^g Tucson Vascular Surgery   (United States)

^h INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Bamberg County Hospital   (United States)

^j Vascular Access Center of Frontenac Grove   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBOLISM; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HAND EDEMA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; RESTENOSIS; STENOSIS; STENT; STENT GRAFT; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE; VENOUS ANASTOMOTIC STENOSIS;

EID: 76649097349     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0902045     Document Type: Article

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