Clinical Study
Efficacy of SMART Stent Placement for Salvage Angioplasty in Hemodialysis Patients with Recurrent Vascular Access Stenosis
Table 1
Patient characteristics. Twenty-five SMART stents each were deployed in AVF and AVG cases. There was no significant difference, other than stent location, between the backgrounds of the patients in the two groups.
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*Difficult vascular access; percutaneous endovascular therapy thought to have been the best treatment choice for the identified lesion because it is difficult to develop new vascular accesses in other lesions. **Poor general health; Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status grade 3 or 4. |