Patients characteristics and outcome of 518 arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis in a sub-Saharan African setting

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 674-679

  Fokou, Marcus ^a   Ashuntantang, Gloria ^a   Teyang, Abel ^a   Kaze, Francois ^a   Chichom Mefire, Alain ^b   Halle, Marie Patrice ^c   Angwafo III, Fru ^a   Takongmo, Samuel ^d   Sandmann, Wilhelm ^e,f  

^a YAOUNDÉ GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^b DOUALA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^c Limbe Regional Hospital   (Cameroon)

^d Department of Surgery   (Cameroon)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f Kamp Lintfort Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN DILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CAMEROON; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861806925     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2011.07.019     Document Type: Article

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