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 ...

Autologous arteriovenous access is the key to long-term success with hemodialysis and is strongly ... or a transposed brachial basilic vein fistula. The DOQI guidelines acknowledge the problems ...

The Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) has received a major boost to its fistula clinic with the donation of an ultrasound ...

Physicians should consider surgery a treatment option for patients on dialysis diagnosed with resectable cancer. In a study of patients diagnosed with cancer after initiating hemodialysis ...

They will ask whether you’ve had gynecologic surgery or pelvic radiation in the past. They may also use several tests to diagnose or rule out a vesicovaginal fistula: Cystoscopy: We insert a flexible, ...