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 ...

Like most people who have been diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Ruel Bautista is still trying to come to terms with ...

This article explains everything you need to know about what kidney dialysis ... created arteriovenous (AV) fistula in the forearm. HD is typically performed at a dialysis center or hospital ...

As baseline levels of IL-6 prior to hemodialysis AVF creation increase, so does the risk for AVF failure. Elevated levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) prior to surgery to create an arteriovenous ...

You can put your hand on my fistula and feel it buzzing ... and subsequently kidney failure. She started dialysis in 2016 and was given priority on the transplant waiting list as a living donor.