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, ...

Four therapeutic approaches have evolved to treat arteriovenous malformations: surgery, radiosurgery, embolization, and conservative treatment. There is a lack of consensus about the choice of ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published findings report that, for vascular access in hemodialysis, the creation of an arteriovenous fistula ...

Briefly, this is how the AV fistula operation is performed: After ad-ministering local anesthesia, the surgeon makes a small incision over the patient’s radial pulse, mobilizes the radial artery, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

An arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is an abnormal joining of an artery and a vein. If an AVF is affecting health, early treatment can help prevent complications. An AVF occurs if an artery connects to a ...

CANSCAN study enrolled 120 patients with chronic kidney disease using the investigational, semi-autonomous VxWave™ Ultrasound Imaging System The VxWave Ultrasound Imaging System potentially provides ...

Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in the brain represent a complex and potentially devastating set of vascular anomalies. These malformations consist of a tangle of dysplastic vessels—collectively ...