Advances in standards of care have extended the life expectancy of patients with kidney
failure. However, options for chronic vascular access for haemodialysis—an essential part of …

Abstract The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative
(KDOQI) has provided evidence-based guidelines for hemodialysis vascular access since …

Heart failure (HF) is the most frequent cardiovascular disease associated with chronic
kidney disease and represents a high risk for cardiovascular mortality in incident …

Background Vascular access for hemodialysis (HD) with an inappropriately high flow may
underlie the onset of high output heart failure (HOHF). The aim of this study was to …

Background The creation of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) may retard chronic kidney disease
progression in the general population. Conversely, the impact of AVF closure on renal …

Purpose The vascular access (VA) used at hemodialysis (HD) inception is involved in the
mortality risk. We analyzed the survival of incident patients over time according to the initial …

Brachiocephalic arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) makeup approximately one third of prevalent
dialysis vascular accesses. The most common cause of malfunction with this access is …

Purpose This study aims to compare two surgical techniques, the standard Vein-to-Artery
and the newer Artery-to-Vein (Radial Artery Deviation And Reimplantation; RADAR), for …

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is regarded as the best vascular access for chronic
haemodialysis (HD). Still, AVF inherently causes significant haemodynamic changes …

There is significant disagreement about maintenance or ligation of arteriovenous fistulas
(AVFs) in kidney transplant patients (KTPs). Potential harms from maintaining AVFs are their …