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 ...

To undergo kidney dialysis, doctors must first surgically create an access route—an arteriovenous fistula—usually in an arm, ...

Beginning dialysis is the start of a major life transition for many Americans impacted by chronic kidney disease. About two ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers found that transplanting patients' own stem cells from fat cells into the vein often helped prevent inflammation ...

Mark London, MD, and Jackson Ewart, MD, have joined world-renowned surgeon Dr. John Ross at the Regional Medical Center’s Dialysis Access Institute. Ross established the DAI when he joined RMC in 2011 ...