Pre-emptive angioaccess for haemodialysis in the elderly

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3666-3670

  Morsy, Mohamed ^a   Betal, Dibendu ^a   Nelson, Stephen ^a   Malete, Hazel ^a   Whitmore, Andrea ^b   Chemla, Eric ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST HELIER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

angioaccess; elderly; haemodialysis; patency; pre emptive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREEMPTIVE ANGIOACCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 80155172735     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfr104     Document Type: Article

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