Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Placement of an arteriovenous fistula in patients with chronic kidney disease not on dialysis can ...

An AV fistula may fail for various reasons, including low or poor blood flow, failure to mature, excessive pain, a sclerotic vein, and a thrombotic vein. Failure can be disheartening to a patient who ...

A new device for the percutaneous creation of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) for hemodialysis access in patients with kidney disease has excellent cumulative patency rates out to 2 years and is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published findings indicated that while patients 77 years or older had lower likelihoods of arteriovenous ...

One big challenge of being a foreign correspondent is to make the foreign less foreign, especially on issues that might seem esoteric or irrelevant to an American audience. The challenge was all the ...

Arteriovenous Fistula Occurring after Operation on Lumbar Intervertebral Disk. Alertness to this occasional complication of lumbar-disk surgery and knowledge of its repair are important since two ...

Philip Pearson, MD, and his surgical team at Bryn Mawr Hospital recently became the first in the state, and among the first ...

In April 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested that all forms of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) ranitidine (Zantac) be removed from the U.S. market. They made this ...