End-stage vascular access failure: can we define and can we classify?
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End-stage vascular access failure: can we define and can we classify?
BACKGROUND Renal replacement therapy using dialysis has evolved dramatically over recent years with an improvement in patient survival. With this increased longevity, a cohort of patients are in the precarious position of having exhausted the standard routes of vascular access. The extent of this problem of failed access or 'desperate measures' access is difficult to determine, as there are no ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Kidney Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2048-8505,2048-8513
DOI: 10.1093/ckj/sfv055