Tag: dialysis access
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...