The dilemma of transvenous cardiac rhythm devices in hemodialysis patients: Time to consider the epicardial approach

Kidney International

Volumn 79, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1267-1269

  Asif, Arif ^a   Salman, Loay H ^a   Lopera, Gustavo G ^a   Carrillo, Roger G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS ACCESS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VEIN; CENTRAL VENOUS STENOSIS; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPICARDIUM; HEART PACING; HEART RHYTHM; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; STENT; TRANSVENOUS CARDIAC RHYTHM DEVICE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 79957802254     PISSN: 00852538     EISSN: 15231755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ki.2011.53     Document Type: Article

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