Tag: dialysis access
Simpler AVF maturation criteria lead to similar outcomes, say researchers
Maturation of an arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) fails to occur for 20–60% of patients who have one created for haemodialysis access, and there is a...
ESVS vessel diameter guidelines do not improve outcomes in new RCT
The European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) guidelines on vascular access recommend minimal diameters of 2mm in the forearm and 3mm in the upper...
Daniel Patel
American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) certification and accreditation chairman Daniel Patel is the medical director for interventional nephrology at the Volusia-Flagler...
Next-generation endoAVF technologies promise to expand candidate patient population
Endovascular arteriovenous fistula (endoAVF) creation marks a “major innovation in dialysis access”, while a “mounting evidence base” demonstrates their high functional patency rates. Now,...
DBB-EXA dialysis machine found less reliable for flow rate measurement than...
The DBB-EXA dialysis machine (Nikkiso) consistently underestimates vascular access (VA) flow rates compared with the Transonic technique of measurement—that is the conclusion of a...
CX 2023: Peritoneal dialysis underutilised “across the world” despite advantages
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) has a number of advantages over haemodialysis—yet with a few exceptions, it is underutilised in most countries. So went the argument...
EndoAVF found usually less cost effective compared with sAVF
The Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery (SCVS) 50th Annual Symposium (25–29 March, Miami, USA) hosted a series of abstract presentations. Among them was one...
Renal Interventions’ top 10 stories of March 2023
The month of March brought PAVE-2 updates, preservation debates and an assessment of the best options in marginal veins. A series of transplant updates,...
Age ceiling for AVF “should be adjusted upwards”
Led by Hyangkyoung Kim (Ewha Womans University Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea) and featuring corresponding author Hoon Suk Park (The Catholic University of Korea...
Preservation or ligation? Post-transplant AV access best practice debated
The Saturday morning session of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) 19th Annual Scientific Meeting (17–19 February, Orlando, USA) played host...
Precision medicine: The promise of machine learning in dialysis access
Saravanan Balamuthusamy (PPG Healthcare, Fort Worth, USA) writes to assess recent evidence on the contribution that can be made to vascular access for dialysis...
“One-minute check” and cannulation simulator promise improvements to dialysis access
It was not just presentation sessions that featured during the Sunday morning of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) 19th Annual...
Early plan for “crash-landers” during tunnelled dialysis catheter placement crucial
The fourth annual Hamburg Dialysis Access Symposium (23–24 September, Hamburg, Germany) was recently organised and moderated by Robert Shahverdyan (Asklepios Clinic Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany),...
John Aruny
“If I had not been an interventional radiologist, I would have been a nephrologist.” John Aruny’s abiding interest in kidney disease treatment and a...
Setting clear expectations early on is an important step in the...
Stephen Hohmann (Texas Vascular Associates, Dallas, USA) recently sat down with Renal Interventions to discuss a number of key considerations along the dialysis journey,...
Fistula, graft or catheter—first and foremost, dialysis patients want an access...
“Catheters are not nearly as bad as we make them out to be.” This was one of the salient messages delivered by Theodore Saad...
Increased frailty associated with longer time to functional use of vascular...
A retrospective analysis of the US Renal Data System has found that, in patients undergoing haemodialysis treatment, a higher degree of frailty is associated...
Not always ‘the alternative’: Are arteriovenous grafts unfairly maligned?
The arteriovenous graft (AVG) for use as a dialysis conduit is a story of innovation, disappointment, intrigue, politics and hope. A recent recalibration of...
Houston, we have a dialysis access problem
The concept of dedicated vascular access centres fuels a turbocharged Texan tussle with Karl Illig (Flow Vascular Center, Houston, USA) taking on Eric Peden...
Fistula trials among key areas set to benefit from MedAlliance acquiring...
Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) access is one of the key areas that is set to receive a boost following MedAlliance’s acquisition of its partner MDK...
Combination therapies and dynamic AVFs among options that may solve fistula...
Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are widely considered to be the holy grail in dialysis access, providing a more long-term solution than synthetic arteriovenous grafts (AVGs)...
Bright future for access grafts highlighted at VASBI 2021 with multiple...
New technologies intended to improve the often-mixed outcomes associated with arteriovenous grafts (AVGs) for haemodialysis access were on display at this year’s Vascular Access...
CiDA 2021 sets out to tackle current controversies polarising dialysis access...
The upcoming Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) meeting in Dallas, Texas is stepping up the scrutiny on the controversies and questions currently igniting the...
New vascular access handbook intends to provide dialysis patients with answers...
At the 12th Congress of the Vascular Access Society (VAS; 6–9 April 2021, online), Ramon Roca-Tey, senior consultant in nephrology at the Fundación Sanitaria...
Results from first-in-human study of Amplifi vein dilation system presented at...
Preliminary clinical results from a first-in-human study assessing the Amplifi vein dilation system (Artio Medical) were presented at this year’s Vascular InterVentional Advances conference (VIVA;...
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...