While there are different options, one stands out as the safest and most effective, an Arteriovenous (AV) fistula. But what makes this surgical connection between an artery and a vein the gold ...
The National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guidelines encourage more-frequent use of primary arteriovenous ... to predict whether a fistula will mature ...
and 4 mm distal arteriovenous fistulae were created by connecting the great saphenous veins to the superficial femoral arteries after a 4 mm PTFE cuff encircled the great saphenous vein.