If you’re living with advanced kidney disease, preparing for dialysis can feel overwhelming. One crucial decision is how your blood will be accessed for treatment. While there are different options, ...

How can I care for my dialysis access? Your vascular access is a way to bring your blood out of your body so it can be cleaned by hemodialysis and returned to you. The best types of access are created ...

When it comes to dialysis, one method of accessing the blood to clean it gets championed above the rest. But quite a few specialists say there's not enough evidence to universally support the ...

The arteriovenous fistula may be the gold standard for dialysis access, but it may not always be the best option for some patients – particularly those who have already had multiple failed accesses.

Establishing and maintaining adequate vascular access is essential to providing an appropriate dialysis dose in patients with end-stage renal disease. Complications related to vascular access have a ...

A new study shows that for those individuals with chronic kidney disease, it doesn't matter if you're young or old: arteriovenous (AV) fistulas remain the gold standard for maintaining access to one's ...

A simple reversal of the way a long-standing surgical procedure is performed to create an arteriovenous fistula for hemodialysis access significantly improves the fistula's function and longevity over ...

In a related press release, lead author Gerald A. Beathard, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas Medical Branch, said, “The dramatic difference in durability between the endovascular fistulas and the ...

The odds of starting hemodialysis with an arteriovenous fistula are 31% lower for women compared with men. Despite the “fistula first” campaign, women, especially black women, are less likely than men ...

When it comes to dialysis, one method of accessing the blood to clean it gets championed above the rest. But quite a few specialists say there's not enough evidence to universally support the ...