Dialysis centers are facing shortages of the nurses that run the facilities and the technicians who operate the dialysis machines. Using a calculated risk score to monitor hemodialysis vascular access ...

Establishing and maintaining adequate vascular access is essential to providing an appropriate dialysis dose in patients with end-stage renal disease. Complications related to vascular access have a ...

Aditlys (http://www.aditlys.com/) is the first medical technology firm to develop a bioresorbable vascular access solution for patients undergoing dialysis treatment ...

June 25 (UPI) --The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has approved marketing two catheter-based devices to connect to veins and arteries in patients with chronic kidney disease who need hemodialysis.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Hispanic patients were 64% less likely to receive pre-dialysis nephrology care vs. non-Hispanic white patients.

The Ellipsys Vascular Access System reduces the time before patients with kidney failure can start lifesaving dialysis treatments, while requiring fewer secondary procedures, according to a new study ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Of the nearly 783,000 Americans with kidney failure, approximately 500,000 of these patients require ...

Patients with Medicare, Medicaid more likely to use arteriovenous fistula, graft by fourth dialysis month. (HealthDay News) — Patients with Medicare or Medicaid are more likely than uninsured patients ...

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 ...