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At the recent Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI) annual scientific meeting (26–27 September, Cardiff, UK), presentations on vascular access, the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the impact of socioeconomic factors, and much more led to in-depth...
Matteo Tozzi (Varese, Italy) recently spoke to Renal Interventions about the role of drug-coated balloons (DCBs) in vascular access.
The full professor of vascular surgery at the University of Insubria started the use of Aperto® OTW DCB by Cardionovum® in his vascular...
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At this year’s UK Kidney Association (UKKA) UK Kidney Week (UKKW) meeting (11–13 June, Edinburgh, UK), Renal Interventions spoke with Frank Dor (previously Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust, London, UK, now Erasmus MC Transplant Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) about pre-emptive kidney...
At this year’s UK Kidney Association (UKKA) UK Kidney Week (UKKW) meeting (11–13 June, Edinburgh, UK), Renal Interventions spoke with the outgoing president of the UKKA, Paul Cockwell (University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) about his thoughts on the highlights...
Matteo Tozzi (Varese, Italy) and Kate Steiner (Stevenage, UK) sat down with Vascular News at this year’s Charing Cross (CX) International Symposium (23–25 April, London, UK) to provide their thoughts on the latest findings from the IN.PACT AV Access...
Alexander Mallios (Paris, France) and Andrew Holden (Auckland, New Zealand; one of the co-chairs of the Charing Cross Symposium) share their views on the first and only consistently positive randomised controlled trial results that are “unequivocally” in favour...
Robert Shahverdyan (Hamburg, Germany) encourages interventionalists to try the new Flex Vessel Prep system (VentureMed) to experience the benefits that arrive in the wake of using this three-bladed device. The device creates symmetrical microincisions when deployed, rotated and pulled...
Vicente Riambau (Barcelona, Spain) describes the unique features and improvements of the iCover balloon expandable covered stent, notably its low profile, radiopaque markers, and total encapsulation with polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE), which give the device an edge over its competitors and...
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Dialysis access is an issue encountered by all patients who need to undergo haemodialysis. The main options currently available for dialysis access—including arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), arteriovenous grafts (AVGs) and catheters—are each accompanied by...
At the most recent Paris Vascular Insights (PVI) meeting (8–10 November 2023, Paris, France), Renal Interventions spoke to Gianmarco Falcone (Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Careggi, Florence, Italy) about endovascular arteriovenous fistulas (endoAVF) and what he feels is needed to ensure...
“We wanted to find a common language between interventional radiologists and nephrologists and we wanted to be sure that the angioplasty we have done has a functional improvement”, associate professor of interventional radiology, Stavros Spiliopoulos (Athens, Greece) speaks to...
Endovascular arteriovenous fistula (endoAVF) creation marks a “major innovation in dialysis access”, while a “mounting evidence base” demonstrates their high functional patency rates. Now, new technologies promise to improve outcomes and expand the population of patients that can benefit...
“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 reviewed the findings from a first-in-human trial at the 2023 Charing Cross Symposium (25–27 April,...
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Robert Shahverdyan (Hamburg, Germany), Matteo Tozzi (Varese, Italy), Alexandros Mallios (Paris, France), Ounali Jaffer (London, UK) and Narayan Karunanithy (London, UK) each give their take on...
Looking ahead to the upcoming Pan Arab Interventional Radiological Society meeting (PAIRS, 11–14 February, Dubai, UAE), Karim Abdel Tawab (Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt) speaks at the 2022 Endo Vascular Access Meeting (EVA, 4–8 July 2022, Patras, Greece) to...
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In this Renal Interventions roundtable, Andrew Holden (moderator; Auckland, New Zealand) is joined by Alexandros Mallios (Paris, France), Kate Steiner (Stevenage, UK) and Tobias Steinke (Düsseldorf, Germany)...
Ultrasound is a powerful tool for assessing haemodialysis (HD) access for maturity, but may also be used to guide HD access cannulations and has the potential to “actually change the process of care” according to Vandana Dua Niyyar (Emory...
Raphaël Coscas (Paris, France) talks to Renal Interventions about the first results of the ABISS trial, comparing drug-coated balloon (DCB) with plain-balloon angioplasty for arteriovenous fistula stenosis, which he presented at the Paris Vascular Insights (PVI) conference (23–25 November,...
Hands-on training for medical, rather than surgical, juniors took centrestage at the first UK Kidney Week (UKKW; 7– 9 June, Birmingham, UK) with stations on peritoneal dialysis, central venous catheter placement using a state-of-the-art simulator, a “home-made” chicken model...
Monnie Wasse, past-president of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) and director of interventional nephrology at Rush University Medical Centre (Chicago, USA), talks to the next generation about the Nephrology Partnership for Advancing Technology in Healthcare...
Nicholas Inston (Birmingham, UK) talks to Maurizio Gallieni (Milan, Italy) at EVA 2022 (24–25 June, Patras, Greece) about N-PATH—a European Union Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance funded project that involves eight universities, the European Renal Association, and the Vascular Access Society...
James Medcalf (Leicester, UK), UK Renal Registry medical director, tells Renal Interventions at UK Kidney Week (UKKW 2022; 7–9 June, Birmingham, UK), “This year for the first time, we had a levelling off of a number of new people...
Robert Jones (Birmingham, UK), interventional radiologist and president of the Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI), tells Renal Interventions at the Endovascular Access meeting (EVA; 24–25 June, Patras, Greece) that there are still significant untapped areas for...
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In a late-breaking Podium 1st presentation at the 2022 Charing Cross (CX) International Symposium (26–28 April, London, UK), Andrew Holden (Auckland, New Zealand) revealed that patients...
Nicholas Inston (consultant vascular access and renal transplant surgeon, Birmingham, UK) discusses the crucial care interventional radiologists provide for renal patients with Ian Mcafferty (consultant interventional radiologist, Birmingham, UK, and immediate past president of the British Society of Interventional...
Nicholas Inston (Birmingham, UK) talks to CX about the challenges in creation, maintenance and salvage of vascular access in patients with end stage renal disease. Inston highlights the many innovations and technologies that have come to the forefront in recent...
Alexandros Mallios (Paris, France) and Robert Shahverdyan (Hamburg, Germany) talk to Vascular News about some of the benefits of the Ellipsys™ Vascular Access System (Medtronic), how it compares to more traditional fistula creation techniques, and the key steps for...
The Amplifi Vein Dilation System (Artio Medical) is an innovative device designed to dilate arm veins in preparation for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) surgery using rapid, non-pulsatile venous blood flow. Surendra Shenoy, M.D. (a vascular surgeon with specialist interest in...
The upcoming Controversies in Dialysis Access (CiDA) meeting in Dallas, Texas is stepping up the scrutiny on the controversies and questions currently igniting the dialysis community, Bart Dolmatch (Portola Valley, USA) tells Renal Interventions at the Paris Vascular Insights...
Multidisciplinary panel of UK experts agrees on roadmap and optimal stepwise application of interventions for symptomatic AVF stenoses in haemodialysis patients. Ounali Jaffer (London, UK) talks to Renal Interventions about the team's recent publication in CVIR.
Nicholas Inston (Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK), secretary of the Vascular Access Society (VAS) and chairman of the editorial board for Renal Interventions interviews Christoph Wanner (University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany), president of the European Renal Association (ERA). They talk...
The largest randomised controlled trial comparing long-term surgical outcomes between two different anaesthetic techniques, the ACCESs study, has just launched in the UK, to test whether regional, when compared to local, anaesthesia during arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation will confer...
Andrew Holden (Auckland, New Zealand) presents the latest results from the IN.PACT™ AV Access trial (Medtronic), which indicate “outstanding” target-lesion primary patency rates of 52.2% through 24 months in dialysis patients with dysfunctional arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), offering a “highly-significant advantage” over standard...
Ajay Kirtane (New York, USA) talks to Renal Interventions about the RADIANCE-HTN TRIO trial which compared renal denervation with a sham procedure to see whether or not renal denervation could lower blood pressure out to two months in patients...
“International practice differences exist in cannulation and dialysis provision with some approaches aiming for fistulas to suit the logistics of dialysis, rather than best long-term outcomes for the fistula and the patient”
The CX 2021 Vascular Access Controversies Programme is designed to...
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Robert Lookstein (New York, USA; principal investigator) and Andrew Holden (Auckland, New Zealand; principal investigator) discuss the key six-month results and implications from the IN.PACT™ AV...
A trio of vascular experts including Raphaël Coscas (Paris, France), Alexandros Mallios (Paris, France) and Kate Steiner (Stevenage, UK) discuss the key findings of the IN.PACT™ AV Access trial–which was recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
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Tobias Steinke (Düsseldorf, Germany), Matteo Tozzi (Varese, Italy) and Robert Shahverdyan (Hamburg, Germany) give their reactions to the publication in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Nicholas Inston (Birmingham, UK; moderator) is joined by Jose Ibeas (Barcelona, Spain), Panagiotis Kitrou (Patras, Greece) and Tobias Steinke (Düsseldorf, Germany), for a special Vascular News webinar called ‘WavelinQ™ 4F EndoAVF System – An attractive non-surgical AV fistula option for...
