Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found one-fifth of surgeons diverged from recommended best practice guidelines by using an ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Establishing and maintaining adequate vascular access is essential to providing an appropriate dialysis dose in patients with end-stage renal disease. Complications related to vascular access have a ...

The increased risk for venous thromboembolism with an arteriovenous graft is one factor for clinicians and patients to consider in the choice of vascular access for hemodialysis. Among permanent ...

April 23, 2009 — Five of 10 autologous tissue-engineered vascular grafts, implanted as arteriovenous shunts for hemodialysis access in patients with end-stage renal disease, continued to function ...

NEW ORLEANS—Stent grafts are more effective than balloon angioplasty in establishing and maintaining patency of collapsed dialysis access grafts, according to researchers. Data presented at the ...

May 20, 2009 — Treatment with dipyridamole plus aspirin improves hemodialysis graft patency, according to the results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial reported in the May 21 ...

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 ...

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 ...