A two-day conference on controversies in Dialysis Access Asia-Pacific (CiDAAP) began at the Hyatt Regency in Gurgaon. Debates, discussions and a competitive challenge among interventional radiologists ...

Repeated dialysis needling can cause painful aneurysmal fistulas that must be removed. A new, minimally invasive approach will decrease morbidity amonghemodialysis patients and help improve their ...

Briefly, this is how the AV fistula operation is performed: After ad-ministering local anesthesia, the surgeon makes a small incision over the patient’s radial pulse, mobilizes the radial artery, and ...

A new device for the percutaneous creation of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) for hemodialysis access in patients with kidney disease has excellent cumulative patency rates out to 2 years and is ...

Overlook Medical Center, part of Atlantic Health System, has unveiled the WavelinQ, a device that offers a new, non-surgical way to prepare patients for dialysis. According to Overlook officials, it ...

First things first, what is dialysis? Dialysis is a treatment that replicates kidney functions when they fail or are unable to function properly. Most of us know that the role of kidneys is to detox ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Due to successful and durable access for hemodialysis through 5 years, percutaneous fistulas can be an ...

DETROIT (WWJ) --A team of physicians at DMC Harper University Hospital announced yesterday that it has successfully treated several patients with a new high-tech "vascular graft" that significantly ...

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 ...

What do the Kidneys do? The kidneys work as a filtering unit for the blood in our bodies and help in excreting waste products from the blood stream. The kidney filters out waste products from the ...