Should current criteria for detecting and repairing arteriovenous fistula stenosis be reconsidered? Interim analysis of a randomized controlled trial

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 179-187

  Tessitore, Nicola ^a   Bedogna, Valeria ^a   Poli, Albino ^b   Lipari, Giovanni ^a   Pertile, Paolo ^b   Baggio, Elda ^a   Contro, Alberto ^a   Criscenti, Paolo ^a   Mansueto, Giancarlo ^a   Lupo, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

access loss; arteriovenous fistula; cost effectiveness; stenosis surveillance; thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FAILURE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN STUDY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POLITEF IMPLANT; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESTENOSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SELF EXPANDING STENT; STENOSIS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR STENT;

ACCESS LOSS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; COST-EFFECTIVENESS; STENOSIS SURVEILLANCE; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EARLY TERMINATION OF CLINICAL TRIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; RENAL DIALYSIS; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 84892719754     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gft421     Document Type: Article

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