Tag: haemodialysis
Older haemodialysis patients often experience better mental quality of life and...
A research team led by Mathijs van Oevelen (Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands) has examined health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in chronic kidney disease...
Central venous occlusion in haemodialysis patients treated with venous stent at...
Complications such as central venous occlusion (CVO) and stenoses are among the “challenging” issues that can occur in haemodialysis patients. Now, a group of...
Teleflex extends Arrow ErgoPack Complete System to haemodialysis and large bore...
Teleflex Incorporated has announced the release of the Arro ErgoPack Complete Kits with haemodialysis and large bore catheters in the USA. This update is...
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...
App helps haemodialysis patients control fluid intake
“The mortality rate for haemodialysis patients,” say the authors of a new study in Kidney Medicine, “remains unacceptably high.” Identifying interdialytic weight gain (IDWG)...
“Essential” vascular access planning eased by new CKD progression tool
Existing guidelines’ recommendations for vascular access planning are mainly based on glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) changes. With “optimal timing for vascular access referral and...
Quanta receives US FDA 510(k) clearance for dialysis system
Quanta Dialysis Technologies has announced that it has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for an expanded indication of the Quanta...
WRAPSODY Arteriovenous Access Efficacy (WAVE) pivotal study completes enrolment
Merit Medical has announced that is has completed enrolment in its WRAPSODY Arteriovenous Access Efficacy (WAVE) pivotal study. Merit’s WAVE study is a prospective,...
NHS study cuts haemodialysis carbon footprint with disinfection cycle reforms
One talk at UK Kidney Week (4–7 June, Newport, Wales) moved the conference conversation onto the subject of sustainability, with Venkata Gullapudi (Leeds Teaching...
Haemodiafiltration mortality risk found lower than haemodialysis
The publication in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of new research on haemodiafiltration comes following a series of inconclusive prior studies. Lead...
Pathfinder Medical and Imperial College London awarded Innovate UK Smart grant...
Pathfinder Medical has been awarded a Smart grant for a £1.1 million (US$1.4 million) project by Innovate UK, the UK's innovation agency. A press...
Invizius receives MHRA approval to commence first-in-human clinical study of H-Guard...
Invizius has announced that it has received approval from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to commence its first-in-human clinical study...
Daily dialysis cuts cardiovascular risk over three times weekly, finds study
Conventional haemodialysis (CHD) consists of three four-hour sessions a week, but a more regular daily haemodialysis (DHD) regimen of six three-hour sessions a week...
Earlier dialysis, transplantation show little benefit for young kidney patients
Published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), a new report has examined the timing of initiation of kidney replacement...
High-dose haemodiafiltration “significantly reduces” kidney failure patient mortality
Fresenius Medical Care has reported its participation in research that it says demonstrates that the mortality rate among kidney failure patients can be significantly...
Weight gain in long dialysis intervals heightens mortality risk
A new retrospective cohort analysis published in Hemodialysis International has found that dialysis patients who gain weight in long intervals between dialysis sessions risk...
First-in-human aXess graft trial shows high patency and low reintervention rates
“Absolutely novel and exciting”—that is how Frans Moll (University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands) has described the aXess haemodialysis vascular graft as he...
Minimum staffing ratios fail to improve dialysis outcomes
A new study published in Hemodialysis International has found that minimum staffing regulations for haemodialysis facilities may not be associated with improved patient outcomes....
Haemodialysis patients prefer comfort over longer life, study suggests
More patients undergoing maintenance haemodialysis for kidney disease have expressed a preference for a comfort-focused treatment over one that lengthens their life as much...
Home haemodialysis: The path to patient empowerment
Michael Aragon (End Stage Renal Disease Network 14, Dallas, USA) writes here to assess how home haemodialysis can offer improvements to patients’ freedom—as well...
PAVE-2, paclitaxel and sirolimus-coated balloons for AVF
Michael Robson and Narayan Karunanithy (King’s College London, London, UK) write to explore the range of options in drug-coated balloons (DCBs) for stenosis in...
Regenerative material found “safe and feasible” as haemodialysis access conduit
Autogenous fistulas offer advantages to haemodialysis patients, long-term survival and low rates of complication among them. But failed or slow maturation as well as...
Stepping up: Haemodialysis patients more active with wearable tracker and feedback
Lower muscle mass, malnutrition, anaemia and depression—all of these, plus elevated mortality, are associated with lower rates of physical activity in patients with end-stage...
Fruit and vegetable intake cuts CKD risk, study suggests
A new study of Japanese patients with and without chronic kidney disease (CKD) found that a lower frequency of vegetable and fruit intake was...
Frail haemodialysis patients more likely to suffer cognitive impairment
Patients receiving haemodialysis for chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are frail—however that is defined—have been found to be at greater risk of suffering cognitive...
Study suggests Black patients more prone to dialysis graft failure
Compared to other races, African American patients are more likely to experience premature arteriovenous (AV) graft failure in the treatment of advanced kidney failure,...
Music during cannulation cuts patient pain, study claims
Eight minutes of Mozart have been found to reduce the pain of cannulation for haemodialysis patients, though not their level of anxiety, in a...
Ultrasound an “objective adjunct” for cannulation that can improve outcomes and...
Ultrasound is a powerful tool for assessing haemodialysis (HD) access for maturity, but may also be used to guide HD access cannulations and has...
Lydus Medical announces US FDA clearance of microvascular anastomosis aid device
Lydus Medical is pleased to announce that the Vesseal has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance. The Vesseal is a microvascular...
Dialyze Direct heralds AHA report endorsing more frequent haemodialysis model of...
Dialyze Direct has welcomed the American Heart Association’s (AHA) recent scientific statement endorsing home dialysis therapies—including the more frequent haemodialysis (MFD) model of care—in...
Arteriovenous graft use linked to venous thromboembolism risk in haemodialysis patients
In an observational cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries receiving haemodialysis, the use of an arteriovenous graft (AVG) compared with an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) was...
Vascular Therapies initiates enrolment in ACCESS 2 clinical trial
Vascular Therapies has announced that the first patient in the ACCESS 2 clinical trial was enrolled by Nikhil Kansal at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, USA.
The...
Fresenius Medical Care North America introduces first single-use integrated bloodline to...
Fresenius Medical Care North America's (FMCNA) Renal Therapies Group recently announced the availability of the CombiSet Smartech. According to a company press release, this...
Intraoperative vascular mapping during haemodialysis access “should be incorporated into routine...
Intraoperative ultrasonographic venous mapping is a useful tool to evaluate vessel suitability for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation, Yana Etkin (Zucker School of Medicine at...
First patient enrolled in Merit Medical’s WRAPSODY registry study
Merit Medical has announced the successful enrolment of the first patient in its WRAP registry study in a press release. This study will evaluate...
Air pollution exposure may heighten risk of heart disease among US...
In a retrospective cohort study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD), researchers have found that US adults receiving haemodialysis who are exposed...
Outset Medical announces shipment hold on new Tablo haemodialysis systems for...
Outset Medical today announced it has implemented a shipment hold on the distribution of its Tablo haemodialysis system for home use pending the US...
VentureMed completes enrolment of Flex Vessel Prep system randomised controlled trial...
VentureMed Group recently announced that it has completed enrolment of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) titled 'Flex Vessel Prep prior to PTA for the...
Nipro introduces Surdial Dx haemodialysis system to US market
Nipro Medical Corporation has announced the commercial launch of its Surdial Dx haemodialysis system—designed to create an optimal dialysis treatment experience for patients and...
Diality closes US$24 million funding round to support development of haemodialysis...
Diality has announced the close of a US$24 million Series B2 investment round. The Series B2 round of funding will be used for activities to support...
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...
Humacyte announces publication of positive long-term follow-up data from phase 2...
Humacyte today announced that five-year data from a phase 2 clinical trial of patients receiving the investigational Human Acellular Vessel (HAV) for arteriovenous (AV)...
Systematic review sheds light on “unpleasant necessity” of cannulation for haemodialysis...
A systematic review published in the Journal of Vascular Access (JVA) has illuminated haemodialysis patients’ views and experiences of arteriovenous access cannulation, concluding that...
Dialyss Pte Limited acquired by NextKidney BV
NextKidney BV has announced the acquisition of Dialyss Pte Limited from 1 January 2022. According to a press release, this marks a major milestone...
Zynex announces first enrolment in haemodialysis clinical trial of fluid monitoring...
Zynex Monitoring Solutions recently reported it has started enrolment in a haemodialysis clinical trial with its CM-1500 fluid monitoring system. The study, conducted at...
Early data indicate benefits of MAGIC in improving cannulation technique
Early data have indicated that a national project, dubbed MAGIC (Managing access by generating improvements in cannulation), has improved cannulation techniques of haemodialysis accesses...
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...
Outset Medical gains landmark CMS approval for Tablo home haemodialysis system
Outset Medical has announced that its Tablo haemodialysis system has received the first ever approval from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for...
New survey finds one third of UK dialysis patients still not...
Quanta Dialysis Technologies announced today the results of the UK Dialysis Patient Experience Survey, showing the wide variance in care experienced by UK dialysis...
Bluegrass Vascular announces Medicare decision to assign New Technology Ambulatory Payment...
Bluegrass Vascular Technologies (Bluegrass Vascular) announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalised a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding...
DCBs favoured over PTA for treatment of dysfunctional haemodialysis venous access
A patient-level meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) has shown that drug-coated balloons (DCBs) were “consistently favoured” over percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) to prolong...
Significant mortality increase seen after home haemodialysis failure compared to continued...
Failure of home haemodialysis (HHD) treatment, defined as a return to in-centre haemodialysis (ICHD), has been associated with a “significant increase” in mortality when...
Artio Medical completes enrolment of first-in-human trial investigating Amplifi vein dilation...
Artio Medical announced today it has completed enrolment in its first-in-human study evaluating the Amplifi vein dilation system. In the study, five patients were treated...
Nationwide survey indicates hesitancy among US dialysis patient groups over COVID-19...
A nationwide survey distributed among 150 randomly selected dialysis facilities in the USA has found that a “substantial proportion” of patients receiving in-centre haemodialysis...
New scoring system measures health-related quality of life in kidney failure...
Results from a new study support the validity of a score that considers various patient-reported measures and preferences for assessing health-related quality of life,...
Quanta announces “largest private funding round in history” for a dialysis...
Quanta Dialysis Technologies has announced that it has raised US$245 million in an oversubscribed and upsized Series D financing round—the largest private funding round...
US Renal Care distributes second round of COVID-19 vaccines to dialysis...
Dialysis provider US Renal Care recently announced it has finished administering a second round of mRNA vaccines to ensure better protection against COVID-19 for...
Arteriovenous fistulas contribute to higher survival of haemodialysis patients with COVID-19
A new study, published online in The Journal of Vascular Access (JVA), suggests that arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) contribute to higher survival of haemodialysis patients...
Baxter reports Theranova dialyser may reduce cardiovascular events and hospitalisations
Baxter International, a global innovator in renal care, has announced new data showing expanded haemodialysis (HDx) therapy enabled by the company's Theranova dialyser may...
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...
ERA-EDTA announces name change following late-breaking clinical data at 2021 congress
Fresh evidence on the usefulness of sonography to ease the burden of lung congestion in haemodialysis patients and “promising data” on a long-awaited targeted...
Nitric oxide, simulation and “living” grafts: Is the landscape of vascular...
The field of vascular access care for haemodialysis patients may look very different in just a few years’ time, with a host of new,...
Early-cannulation grafts display parity with ePTFE options—but also face similar challenges
In addition to demonstrating comparable performance in terms of long-term patency, durability and associated complications, early-cannulation arteriovenous (AV) grafts may hold some advantages when...
Baxter gains FDA clearance for next-generation AK 98 dialysis machine
American healthcare firm and global renal care innovator Baxter International has announced US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its next-generation Artificial...
Study supports tunnelled haemodialysis catheter use for permanent dialysis access
In a recent study, Victor Demaerel (University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium) and colleagues found that tunnelled haemodialysis catheter (THC) survival in 352 patients was...
Plastic cannulas offer useful new option in toolbox for renal nurses
Despite currently being less commonly used than metal needles in haemodialysis access, particularly in Europe, plastic cannulas offer a “useful new tool in the...
Invizius raises £5.3 million to assess anti-inflammatory treatment for haemodialysis patients
Invizius has announced the closing of a Series A financing round worth £5.3 million. The Scottish biotechnology company will use this funding to complete...
Vascular Therapies announces clinical results from phase 3 randomised multicentre clinical...
Vascular Therapies recently announced results from its phase 3 clinical trial in which Sirogen showed encouraging arteriovenous fistula (AVF) outcomes in elderly end-stage renal...
BD announces enrolment in postmarket studies of the WavelinQ endoAVF system
BD announced today that enrolment has begun and the first patients have been treated in the postmarket surveillance study, CONNECT-AV.
CONNECT-AV is a prospective, single-arm,...
Clotted haemodialysis accesses can spontaneously recanalise following abandonment
Clotted haemodialysis accesses can spontaneously recanalise following a failed thrombectomy and subsequent abandonment, a retrospective review of 3,137 mechanical thrombectomy procedures has found. The...
BD gains FDA 510(k) clearance for Pristine long-term haemodialysis catheter
American medical technology company BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Pristine...
Multicentre trial of haemodialysis access strategies in older patients deemed feasible...
A multicentre clinical trial to assess arteriovenous fistula (AVF)-first and arteriovenous graft (AVG)-first access strategies in older end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients on haemodialysis...
Fresenius and DaVita make home dialysis technologies available to patients across...
Fresenius Medical Care North America and DaVita Kidney Care have announced an expanded agreement to make multiple home dialysis technologies available for patients across...
ISABELLA trial for the treatment of failing AV fistulas in haemodialysis...
MedAlliance has announced completion of patient enrolment in the ISABELLA clinical trial with the Selution SLR 018 drug-eluting balloon (DEB) for the treatment of...
Tunneled cuffed dialysis catheters: Why does the catheter’s tip matter?
A tunneled catheter remains the most common access in patients initiating haemodialysis.1 This is most likely because the catheters are ready to use immediately...
PatenSee initiates first-in-human trial with its contactless imaging surveillance system for...
PatenSee has initiated a first-in-human clinical trial to assess its machine vision-based surveillance system, a press release from the company reveals. The trial, led...
Medtronic launches IN.PACT AV DCB in Japan for patients undergoing haemodialysis
Medtronic has announced the launch of IN.PACT AV drug-coated balloon (DCB) in Japan. IN.PACT AV DCB is indicated for the treatment of obstructive lesions...