Researchers found that eGFR decline decelerated significantly in patients with AVF/AVG, from -5.6 to -4.1 mL/min/1.73m2 per year. For patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), timely ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The type of arteriovenous access placement, graft or fistula, used first in older patients receiving ...

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 ...

Long-term hemodialysis is a lifesaver for approximately half a million patients in the United States with kidney failure (also known as end-stage renal disease, or ESRD) who are either waiting on or ...

Creation of an arteriovenous fistula could be beneficial for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) Decline in estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate (eGFR) is slow after the surgery A new study ...

Long-term hemodialysis is a lifesaver for approximately half a million patients in the United States with kidney failure (also known as end-stage renal disease, or ESRD) who are either waiting on or ...

Racial and ethnic differences in arteriovenous fistula (AVF) use are seen on initiation of dialysis, but overall, AVF rates are dismally low across the entire hemodialysis population in the United ...

C-reactive protein levels are lower with arteriovenous fistulas than with catheters. SAN FRANCISCO—Arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) are associated with less chronic inflammation than catheters in adult ...

Timmy Lee, MD, MSPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Staff Nephrologist at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the Associate Director of ...

Even specialized surgeons still perform a risky medical procedure to create kidney dialysis access, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the Journal of the American Medical ...