The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Kidney-Pancreas Transplant faculty have busy elective dialysis access practices. Almost 1,000 operative cases are performed each year. A strong emphasis ...

Autologous arteriovenous access is the key to long-term success with hemodialysis and is strongly supported by the National Kidney Foundation's Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines. Basilic ...

Enrollment milestone achieved ahead of schedule as Solaris DE drug-eluting continues to gather additional clinical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Before the pandemic, 34.5% of patients with disabilities and end-stage kidney disease transitioned to home ...

Patients with kidney failure must often have hemodialysis one or more times each week to assist their kidneys in filtering waste products out of their blood streams. The dialysis filtering process ...

A heparin-coated endovascular prosthesis has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of stenosis or thrombotic occlusions at the venous anastomosis of synthetic ...

The LifeSite Hemodialysis System (Vasca, Inc., Tewksbury, MA, USA)is totally subcutaneous, incorporating two silicone catheters positioned in the central venous system and connected to a stainless ...

Despite all the progress achieved since Scribner first introduced the arteriovenous (AV) shunt in 1960 and Cimino and Brescia introduced the native AV fistula in 1962, we have continued to face a ...

Employment rates for patients with end-stage kidney disease were higher for those with access to home hemodialysis or evening ...

Bundled payments are a good idea, until they aren’t—for patients. The idea of paying a combined price rather than piecemeal for a routine medical treatment or procedure has gained traction as a way of ...