Outcomes of elderly patients after predialysis vascular access creation

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3133-3140

  Lee, Timmy ^a,b   Thamer, Mae ^c   Zhang, Yi ^c   Zhang, Qian ^c   Allon, Michael ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Medical Technology and Practice Patterns Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERIOVENOUS GRAFT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDIALYSIS VASCULAR ACCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN GRAFT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CATHETER; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT, SURGICAL; CATHETERS; COMORBIDITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR GRAFTING;

EID: 84948712113     PISSN: 10466673     EISSN: 15333450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2014090938     Document Type: Article

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