Incidence and clinical outcome of iatrogenic femoral arteriovenous fistulas
Implications for risk stratification and treatment
Malte Kelm, MD*,*,
Stefan M. Perings, MD*,
Thomas Jax, MD*,
Thomas Lauer, MD*,
Frank C. Schoebel, MD*,
Matthias P. Heintzen, MD*,
Christian Perings, MD* and
Bodo E. Strauer, MD, FACC, FESC*
* Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Pulmonary Disease and Angiology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Figure 1 Rate of persistence of arteriovenous fistula (AVF). The time interval from acquisition to closure of AVF was analyzed by Kaplan-Meier analysis. Numbers in horizontal bar indicate the cumulative number of patients with AVF closure.
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