The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines encourage more-frequent use of primary arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) in hemodialysis patients, because this ...

As baseline levels of IL-6 prior to hemodialysis AVF creation increase, so does the risk for AVF failure. Elevated levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) prior to surgery to create an arteriovenous ...

and arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are significant vascular conditions that can lead to serious complications, particularly in patients undergoing hemodialysis or renal transplantation. AVFs are ...

Vascular complications that occur later include renal artery stenosis, intrarenal pseudoaneurysm, and arteriovenous fistula. Renal artery thrombosis is an early (within the first 2 days ...

Dialysis is a type of renal replacement therapy (RRT ... put back into the body via a surgically created arteriovenous (AV) fistula in the forearm. HD is typically performed at a dialysis center ...