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 ...

Solaris Endovascular, Inc. announced that the DEScover clinical trial has completed enrollment. According to the comp ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Improvement of the clinical practice guidelines for chronic hemodialysis patients has become a priority for CMS.

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 ...

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 ...

Merit Medical Systems MMSI announced that it has met the enrollment target in the multicenter, pivotal study, WAVE, which is evaluating its Cell-Impermeable Endoprosthesis device — WRAPSODY. The ...

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 ...