Evaluating national guideline concordance of recurrent interventions after radiocephalic arteriovenous fistula creation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Radiocephalic arteriovenous fistulas have been historically perceived as requiring multiple follow-up procedural interventions to achieve maturation and maintain patency. Recent clinical practice guidelines from the National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) emphasize a patient-centered hemodialysis access strategy with new maximum targets for intervention rates, potentially conflicting with concomitant recommendations to prioritize autogenous forearm hemodialysis access creation. The present descriptive study seeks to assess whether radiocephalic fistulas can meet the KDOQI guideline benchmarks for interventions following access creation, and to elucidate clinical and anatomic characteristics associated with the timing and frequency o

SUBMITTER: Heindel P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10038866 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature