Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At a single pediatric institution, investigators found younger age and placement of an interposition material ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In an observational cohort study, researchers examined Medicare beneficiaries who recently started using an AV ...

Birmingham, AL - Both primary and secondary graft survival are improved through placement of a stent in the stenotic lesion of thrombosed arteriovenous (AV) grafts compared with angioplasty, US ...

A study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 2011 Annual Scientific Meeting found an association between the use of covered stents for treatment of pseudoaneurysms in arteriovenous ...

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 ...

A heparin-coated endovascular prosthesis has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of stenosis or thrombotic occlusions at the venous anastomosis of synthetic ...

A combination of aspirin and the antiplatelet drug dipyridamole can significantly decrease the risk of patency loss in new arteriovenous (AV) hemodialysis (HD) grafts, according to a five-year study. ...

Using a stent graft to keep open failing arteriovenous dialysis grafts results in better patency and fewer reinterventions than angioplasty alone. Twelve-month results of the RENOVA trial were ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Compared to other races, African American patients are more likely to experience premature arteriovenous (AV) graft failure in the treatment of advanced kidney failure, according to ...