Current Management of Vascular Access
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In-Depth Review Current Management of Vascular Access
Optimizing vascular access outcomes remains an ongoing challenge for clinical nephrologists. All other things being equal, fistulas are preferred over grafts, and grafts are preferred over catheters. Mature fistulas have better longevity and require fewer interventions, as compared with mature grafts. The major hurdle to increasing fistula use is the high rate of failure to mature of newly crea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1555-9041,1555-905X
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.00860207