Dialysis: 'Catheter Last' not 'Fistula First' in elderly patients

Nature Reviews Nephrology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 632-634

  Combe, Christian ^a   Bérard, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; DIALYSIS CATHETER; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84890800450     PISSN: 17595061     EISSN: 1759507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneph.2013.175     Document Type: Article

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