Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “If there is a clinical concern about [arteriovenous fistula] AVF maturation after surgery, a 6-week ultrasound ...

In a study, arteriovenous fistula blood flow, diameter, and depth were the most informative parameters. Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) blood flow, diameter, and depth, assessed by ultrasound following ...

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 ...

Unfortunately, arteriovenous fistulas, the gold standard for accessing the bloodstream for dialysis, frequently fail to mature and cannot be used. A new study in an upcoming issue of the Journal of ...

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 ...

The successful creation and use of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) for vascular access for dialysis patients varies considerably between countries, despite national guidelines that uniformly recommend ...

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 ...

Timmy Lee, MD, MSPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Staff Nephrologist at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the Associate Director of ...

Washington, DC (October 11, 2018) -- Unfortunately, arteriovenous fistulas, the gold standard for accessing the bloodstream for dialysis, frequently fail to mature and cannot be used. A new study in ...