Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Vascular access is the Achilles’ heel of dialysis therapy.” That is an often-quoted statement in dialysis ...

In a study, arteriovenous fistula blood flow, diameter, and depth were the most informative parameters. Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) blood flow, diameter, and depth, assessed by ultrasound following ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For older patients who initiated hemodialysis without permanent access, those with arteriovenous fistula ...

More than a third of patients required interventions to foster AVF maturation. Intervention is commonly required to foster maturation of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), maintain patency, and treat ...

DURHAM, N.C., June 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humacyte, Inc. (HUMA), a commercial-stage biotechnology platform company developing universally implantable, bioengineered human tissue at commercial ...

The Ellipsys Vascular Access System reduces the time before patients with kidney failure can start lifesaving dialysis treatments, while requiring fewer secondary procedures, according to a new study ...

This requires durable access to a blood vessel site where the dialysis machine can remove and return blood. Such access is created when a surgeon attaches a vein to an artery in the patient. The ...

The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines encourage more-frequent use of primary arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) in hemodialysis patients, because this ...

Timmy Lee, MD, MSPH, is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Staff Nephrologist at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is the Associate Director of ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – More than 600,000 people in the United States have end-stage kidney disease, and about 450,000 are kept alive through chronic hemodialysis to remove waste products from their blood.