The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines encourage more-frequent use of primary arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) in hemodialysis patients, because this ...

First, that the natural history of Crohn's disease and its evolution to strictures or fistulae necessitating surgical resection has not been altered by conventional treatment. Second, that anti ...

we examined whether regional blocks can be useful for the creation of new arteriovenous fistulae (AVF). From August 2002 to January 2005, 41 patients scheduled for AVF placement underwent a ...