An arteriovenous (AV) fistula connects an artery to a vein in your arm. This provides a stronger access point for the needles from a hemodialysis machine. If you have end stage kidney disease (ESKD), ...

Arteriovenous Fistula Occurring after Operation on Lumbar Intervertebral Disk. Alertness to this occasional complication of lumbar-disk surgery and knowledge of its repair are important since two ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published findings indicated that while patients 77 years or older had lower likelihoods of arteriovenous ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Improvement of the clinical practice guidelines for chronic hemodialysis patients has become a priority for CMS.

Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), surgically created for haemodialysis access, are prone to complications that encompass aneurysm formation, thrombosis, stenosis, and infection. Such issues can ...

More than a third of patients required interventions to foster AVF maturation. Intervention is commonly required to foster maturation of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), maintain patency, and treat ...

This requires durable access to a blood vessel site where the dialysis machine can remove and return blood. Such access is created when a surgeon attaches a vein to an artery in the patient. The ...

A 85 year old male with a history of hypertension and diabetes was admited with chest pain of 4 hours duration and dyspnea and orthopnea of 1 hour duration. He was Killip class III. The EKG showed ST ...

As baseline levels of IL-6 prior to hemodialysis AVF creation increase, so does the risk for AVF failure. Elevated levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) prior to surgery to create an arteriovenous fistula ...