End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) is a common and morbid disease that affects patients'
quality and length of life, representing a large portion of health care expenditure in the …

Importance More than 3.5 million people worldwide and 540 000 individuals in the US
receive maintenance hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis for the treatment of chronic kidney …

Background Preoperative ultrasound mapping is routinely used to select vessels meeting
minimal threshold diameters for surgical arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation but fails to …

Rationale & Objective As the proportion of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) compared with
arteriovenous grafts (AVGs) in the United States has increased, there has been a concurrent …

Vascular access planning is critical in the management of patients with advanced kidney
disease who elect for hemodialysis for RRT. Policies put in place more than two decades …

Aims Vein grafts are used for many indications, including bypass graft surgery and
arteriovenous fistula (AVF) formation. However, patency following vein grafting or AVF …

Kidney failure, leading to ESKD, is invariably an irreversible condition that, for survival,
typically requires RRT-either in the form of dialysis or a kidney transplant. ESKD is …

Abstract Background South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) are medically
underserved-communities near the Texas-Mexico border with the highest incidence of end …

Vascular access is the lifeline of hemodialysis patients. There are great differences in the
establishment and use of vascular access in different countries and regions around the …

Background Because functioning permanent vascular access (arteriovenous fistula [AVF] or
arteriovenous graft [AVG]) is crucial for optimizing patient outcomes for those on …