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 ...
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 ...
For decades, the United States has grappled with the complexities of chronic kidney disease and the plight of the almost ...
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 ...
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 ...
DURHAM, N.C., Nov. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humacyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: HUMA), a commercial-stage biotechnology platform company developing universally implantable, bioengineered human tissue at ...
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 ...
As community disadvantage increases, access to dialysis facilities decreases, according to a research letter published online Feb. 23 in JAMA Internal Medicine. Yu-Chu Shen, Ph.D., from the Department ...