{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Richards J"],"funding":["Research Trainees Coordinating Centre","National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)"],"pagination":["e031210"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6661628"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(7)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Introduction</h4>Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are considered the best and safest modality for providing haemodialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease. Only 20% of UK centres achieve the recommended 80% target for achieving dialysis of the prevalent dialysis population via permanent access (as opposed to a central venous catheter). This is partly due to the relatively poor maturation rate of newly created fistulas, with as many as 50% of fistulas failing to mature.The Surveillance Of arterioveNous fistulAe using ultRasound study will examine whether a protocolised programme of Doppler ultrasound (US) surveillance can identify, early after creation, potentially correctable problems in those AVFs that subsequently fail to mature.<h4>Methods and analysis</h4>This is a multicentre"],"journal":["BMJ open"],"pubmed_title":["Surveillance arterioveNous fistulAs using ultRasound (SONAR) trial in haemodialysis patients: a study protocol for a multicentre observational study."],"pmcid":["PMC6661628"],"funding_grant_id":["ACF-2014-14-015","PDF-2016-09-065","CL-2015-14-002","CL-2018-14-008","HTA/17/27/11","17/27/11"],"pubmed_authors":["Fitzpatrick-Creamer C","Crawford K","Hudson C","Foley C","Deary A","Ayorinde T","Parsons K","Weerasinghe T","Crane J","Carmichael SJ","Richards J","Moinuddin Z","Paul S","Daniel S","Salter T","Ghazanfar A","Gee S","Motallebzadeh R","Badhan R","Patel J","Rowe T","Hossain M","Hunter J","Lawman S","Bond K","Bagul A","Owen W","Dutta S","Kerr J","Widdup J","Trivedi K","Hyndman S","Dawson S","Hopkins V","Surendrakumar V","Bodneck C","Fleet A","Sidders A","Brand S","Bajwa A","Augustin M","SONAR trial group","Bolsworth A","Selm JV","Slater M","Eadie T","Bartlett M","Jerram A","Lai J","Burney K","Padayachee S","Cai P","Long J","Laing E","Somalanka S","Potter R","Banda J","Tambyraja A","Lena M","Summers D","Thomas H","Knight S","Hardy E","Pugh E","Edlin H","Lochiel R","Rabuya M","Beech A","Pettigrew G","Turner S","Truslove M","Lagaac R","Aslam M","Smith G","Wilson EC","Quashie-Akponeware M","Chipurovski I","Barnett N","Kosmoliaptsis V","Smith M","Ansu K","Khosla N","Lafferty K","Ngwa-Ndifor N","Bendle J","Cheal D","Eldridge P","Gibbs P","Dear K","Sivaprakasam R","Tiivas C","Morgan M","Chapman L","Allsop K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Surveillance arterioveNous fistulAs using ultRasound (SONAR) trial in haemodialysis patients: a study protocol for a multicentre observational study.","description":"<h4>Introduction</h4>Arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) are considered the best and safest modality for providing haemodialysis in patients with end-stage renal disease. Only 20% of UK centres achieve the recommended 80% target for achieving dialysis of the prevalent dialysis population via permanent access (as opposed to a central venous catheter). This is partly due to the relatively poor maturation rate of newly created fistulas, with as many as 50% of fistulas failing to mature.The Surveillance Of arterioveNous fistulAe using ultRasound study will examine whether a protocolised programme of Doppler ultrasound (US) surveillance can identify, early after creation, potentially correctable problems in those AVFs that subsequently fail to mature.<h4>Methods and analysis</h4>This is a multicentre","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019 Jul","modification":"2026-05-07T07:03:49.791Z","creation":"2019-08-12T07:04:00Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6661628","cross_references":{"pubmed":["31340975"],"doi":["10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031210"]}}