A covered stent appears to be a safe alternative to angioplasty alone for AVF stenosis, according to investigators. To maintain patency of an upper extremity arteriovenous fistula (AVF), placement of ...

More than a third of patients required interventions to foster AVF maturation. Intervention is commonly required to foster maturation of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs), maintain patency, and treat ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Vascular access is the Achilles’ heel of dialysis therapy.” That is an often-quoted statement in dialysis ...

Study finds 100 percent target lesion patency at 30 days; 90.9 percent of patients free from revascularization at 6 months EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Surmodics, Inc. (NASDAQ:SRDX), a ...

Merit Medical Systems MMSI announced that it has met the enrollment target in the multicenter, pivotal study, WAVE, which is evaluating its Cell-Impermeable Endoprosthesis device — WRAPSODY. The ...

An arteriovenous fistula (AVF) is an abnormal joining of an artery and a vein. If an AVF is affecting health, early treatment can help prevent complications. An AVF occurs if an artery connects to a ...

Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital has developed a device that can help patients on dialysis detect stenosis at home in 20 seconds, Taipei Medical University (TMU) said on Saturday. Wanfang is one of ...

ALTHOUGH Fauvel, 1 in 1843, attributed the apical presystolic murmur to stenosis of the mitral valve, Duroziez's 2 description — "ffout-tata-rou" — in 1862 has been considered as the classic ...