Thigh grafts contribute significantly to patients' time on dialysis

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1229-1234

  Ram, Sunanda J ^a   Sachdeva, Bharat A ^a   Caldito, Gloria C ^b   Zibari, Gazi B ^a   Abreo, Kenneth D ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISTULA; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECIPIENT; REOPERATION; THIGH; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULARIZATION;

ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THIGH; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE;

EID: 77954810971     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.08561109     Document Type: Article

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