Hemodynamic shear stress and endothelial dysfunction in hemodialysis access

Open Urology and Nephrology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue SPEC.ISS.1, 2014, Pages 33-44

  Fitts, Michelle K ^a   Pike, Daniel B ^a   Anderson, Kasey ^a   Shiu, Yan Ting ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous fistula; Arteriovenous grafts; Endothelial cells; Hemodialysis vascular access; Hemodynamics; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL REMODELING; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTERY BYPASS; BLOOD VESSEL TONE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY; CEPHALIC VEIN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODYNAMIC STRESS; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; ILIAC ARTERY; JUGULAR VEIN; KIDNEY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; NEOINTIMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STENOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN ANASTOMOSIS; VENOUS REMODELING; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA VASCULAR ACCESS; ARTERIOVENOUS GRAFT VASCULAR ACCESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FLOW RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); WALL STRESS;

GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; RECOMBINANT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

EID: 84906764383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1874303X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874303X01407010033     Document Type: Review

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