Intervention Based on Monthly Monitoring Decreases Hemodialysis Access Thrombosis

Sands, J.; A. JARYAC, PATTI; Miranda, Carol; J. KAPSICK, BRIAN

doi:10.1097/00002480-199905000-00008

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Intervention Based on Monthly Monitoring Decreases Hemodialysis Access Thrombosis

Published in ASAIO Journal • May 1, 1999

Authors:

J. Sands

PATTI A. JARYAC

Carol Miranda

Abstract

We randomized 103 patients (68 arteriovenous [AV] fistulas, 35 polytetrafluoroethylene [PTFE] grafts; mean follow-up 197 days) to monthly measurement of access flow (QAT), monthly measurement of static venous pressure (VPS), or no monthly monitoring (control patients) to determine whether access thr...

Subject

Hemodialysis

Thrombosis

Medicine

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