High Brachial Artery Bifurcation: Clinical Considerations and Practical Implications for an Arteriovenous Access

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 244-247

  Kian, Kaveh ^a   Shapiro, Joshua A ^a   Salman, Loay ^b   Khan, Rao Ali Hashim ^b   Merrill, Donna ^b   Garcia, Leonel ^b   Eid, Nadia ^b   Asif, Arif ^b   Aldahan, Adam ^b   Beathard, Gerald ^c  

^a Interventional Nephrology   (United States)

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

^c Austin Diagnostic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84858703550     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2011.00964.x     Document Type: Article

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