Learn more about dialysis access surgery, as well as av fistula, av graft, and dialysis catheters, as well as the risks of vascular access for dialysis.

Using a calculated risk score to monitor hemodialysis vascular access stenosis can help ease workforce shortages at dialysis centers, a Detroit-based nephrologist says.

The FDA has approved marketing two catheter-based devices to connect to veins and arteries in patients with chronic kidney disease who need hemodialysis.

Dedicated vascular access clinics have the potential to significantly decrease hospitalization rates among dialysis patients and create major health savings, a new study suggests. (Mishler R et al ...

SAN DIEGO — Nearly one-third of disparities in vascular access outcomes for Hispanic vs. non-Hispanic white patients with end-stage kidney disease can be tied to pre-dialysis care inequities ...

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 ...

A retrospective study conducted in Belgium found neither catheter nor arteriovenous access was associated with survival in patients on hemodialysis.This led researchers to suggest the worse ...

Vital Access has secured a $10 million credit facility from Deerfield Management to expand marketing of its FDA-cleared implant to make it easier to access the vascular system of end-stage renal ...

Since problems related to vascular access, including failure due to stenosis, cause about 20% of the hospitalizations and many deaths among the more than half a million Americans on dialysis, and ...

The company's Ellipsys Vascular Access System is an innovative, ultrasound-guided, single-catheter endoAVF system used to percutaneously create an arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis access.

Dialysis centers are facing shortages of the nurses that run the facilities and the technicians who operate the dialysis machines. Using a calculated risk score to monitor hemodialysis vascular access ...