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, ...

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 ...

Dialysis access: New minimally invasive approach to creating vascular access for kidney patients who require hemodialysis offers high levels of patient satisfaction. New minimally invasive approach ...

For those who have suffered a kidney failure, dialysis provides a new lease of life. During dialysis, the blood from a patient's body is taken to a machine, cleaned and returned. The machine functions ...

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 ...

Patients with end-stage renal disease rely on hemodialysis to survive. About 500,000 Americans are in the end-stage renal disease and are being treated with hemodialysis, which requires repeated ...

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 ...

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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 ...