Association between initial type of hemodialysis access used in the elderly and mortality

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 233-241

  Desilva, Ranil N ^a   Sandhu, Gurprataap S ^a   Garg, Jalaj ^a   Goldfarb Rumyantzev, Alexander S ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CATHETER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859591251     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2011.00661.x     Document Type: Article

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