Time to primary patency loss was defined as the interval from time of first successful cannulation of the vascular access for hemodialysis treatment (first dialysis session) to surgery, percutaneous endovascular intervention, or abandonment of the vascular access in the first two years on dialysis.
Information about surgery, percutaneous endovascular intervention, or abandonment of the vascular access was obtained from the standard data collection of NECOSAD.
Outside the walls of their sunny Brooklyn home, transgender communities across the nation are fighting political abandonment of rights "to equal access to health care, to housing, to education, or to fair treatment under the law," according to the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE).
These efforts too failed, leading to the effective abandonment of U.S. efforts to limit private access to strong cryptography.
Some anti-abortion activists grew more aggressive and violent in the face of political abandonment, culminating with the murder of David Gunn in 1993 and the passage of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act in 1994.
(The abandonment of traditional grand entrances in favor of subterranean access, as with I. M. Pei's glass pyramid, at the Louvre, is a curious trend in the evolving culture of museums).
As a result of restricted access into the overgrown forests, the abandonment of chestnut orchards leads to a decline in bat species richness and foraging activities.
Everyone in contact with an American university has been fully aware what the country's near abandonment of financial support for higher education has meant for both students' access to and the experience of their education.
Insertion of new leads via the contralateral subclavian vein with either tunnelling of the leads across the sternum or abandonment of the pre-existing leads; Venoplasty of the occluded vessels; Alternative venous access; Surgical epicardial lead implant.
Users in China have not been able to easily access google.com since the introduction of google.cn, and the embarrassing scandal surrounding the abandonment of the latter will likely make it even more difficult.
Britain's decision to join the European project in 1973 led to the abandonment of a system of reciprocal trade terms, known as Commonwealth Preference: henceforth French, not New Zealander, farmers would enjoy favourable access to British markets.
