Tag: VASA
International support a focal point of VASA 2024 Henry Lecture
Prior to the recent Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA) Vascular Access for Hemodialysis Symposium (16–18 May, Atlanta, USA), Renal Interventions spoke to...
Debbie Brouwer-Maier
With 40 years of experience working in nephrology, a passion for advancing the fields of nephrology and kidney disease, and a love of crafting,...
Global dialysis access forum: International collaboration at VASA
At the recent Vascular Access Society of the Americas (VASA) 2024 Vascular Access for Haemodialysis Symposium (16–18 May, Atlanta, USA), one of the focal...
More education for cannulating staff needed to ensure advances in dialysis...
Dialysis access has seen an enormous multiplication of options for dialysis patients; specialised fistulas, endovascular fistulas, and new graft materials. This has brought the...
Treating steal syndrome: Symptoms, flow rate and anastomosis location all key...
When it comes to treating steal syndrome, the extent to which the dialysis patient in question is displaying symptoms—as well as their flow rate...
Balloon angioplasty in critical time window central to endovascular success for...
Tackling the main culprit, stenosis in the arteriovenous anastomosis and outflow veins, with balloon angioplasty before it is “too late” can boost maturation rates...