Meghan Dermody, MD, MS, RPVI, FACS, FSVS Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery Penn Medicine-Lancaster General Hospital ...

Practical approaches to a thrombosed arteriovenous dialysis access, from systematic evaluation and patient selection to ...

early-dialysis-av-fistula-graft-surgery In the first few months of hemodialysis, one additional provider visit per month increased the probability of AV fistula or graft surgery by nearly 5%. When ...

An AV fistula may fail for various reasons, including low or poor blood flow, failure to mature, excessive pain, a sclerotic vein, and a thrombotic vein. Failure can be disheartening to a patient who ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared two minimally invasive, catheter-based devices to create arteriovenous (AV) fistulas percutaneously in patients with chronic kidney disease who ...

Phase 3 results highlight benefits of ATEV for patients at higher risk of fistula failure, including all women and men with obesity and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For older patients who initiated hemodialysis without permanent access, those with arteriovenous fistula ...

If you’re living with advanced kidney disease, preparing for dialysis can feel overwhelming. One crucial decision is how your blood will be accessed for treatment. While there are different options, ...

The Progressive Healthworkers Forum, a coalition of multidisciplinary healthcare professionals, is offering free AV fistula surgeries to chronic kidney disease patients across Delta State to mark ...

The patient is a 79-year-old male with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation and diabetes mellitus who presented in March 2000 to a Neurologist with a 6-month history of progressive bilateral ...

Repeated dialysis needling can cause painful aneurysmal fistulas that must be removed. A new, minimally invasive approach will decrease morbidity amonghemodialysis patients and help improve their ...