In contrast to reports of favorable survival in incident patients on peritoneal dialysis compared with hemodialysis, a recent study has shown similar survival outcome depending on type of vascular ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A retrospective study conducted in Belgium found neither catheter nor arteriovenous access was associated with ...

Planning for renal replacement therapy and dialysis vascular access requires evaluation of comorbidities and quality of life Selection of the ideal vascular access for an elderly patient requires ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Using data from the US Renal Data System, researchers identified 74,194 Medicare-eligible patients who initiated ...

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 may be used to treat patients chronic kidney disease or acute kidney failure. There are two types of dialysis - hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Both types involve the use of a fluid ...