These articles have been hand-picked by the editors of Renal Interventions, these articles offer insights and perspectives on the latest trends and best practices within the vascular community, and we hope that they will be of interest to you.
(from left) Edgar Lerma, Loay Salman The Saturday morning session of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) 19th Annual Scientific Meeting (17–19…
(from left) Michael Robson and Narayan Karunanithy Michael Robson and Narayan Karunanithy (King’s College London, London, UK) write to explore the range of options in…
Autogenous fistulas offer advantages to haemodialysis patients, long-term survival and low rates of complication among them. But failed or slow maturation as well as the…
Saravanan Balamuthusamy (PPG Healthcare, Fort Worth, USA) writes to assess recent evidence on the contribution that can be made to vascular access for dialysis by…
A report has been issued on methods for improving organ provision by the Organ Utilisation Group (OUG), a UK Department of Health-established body dedicated to…
Felix Mahfoud The publication of a consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Council on Hypertension and the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular…
IN.PACT AV DCB The second day of the 2023 meeting of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN) played host to a packed…
The American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology (ASDIN)’s 2023 meeting has seen its second day start with style, as Tze-Woei Tan (Keck School of…
“More than in any other medical discipline,” says Vascular Access Society of Britain and Ireland (VASBI) president Robert Jones, “interventional radiology (IR) is where medicine…
Vasc-Alert, a pioneer in vascular access surveillance, has announced the publication of a study in the Journal of Vascular Access (JVA) validating its Vasc-Alert surveillance…
Deborah J Brouwer-Maier is the vascular access marketing manager for Transonic (Ithaca, USA) and a haemodialysis nurse of almost 40 years. Exploring how her experience…
The fourth annual Hamburg Dialysis Access Symposium (23–24 September, Hamburg, Germany) was recently organised and moderated by Robert Shahverdyan (Asklepios Clinic Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany), who…
Eight minutes of Mozart have been found to reduce the pain of cannulation for haemodialysis patients, though not their level of anxiety, in a recent…
Ultrasound is a powerful tool for assessing haemodialysis (HD) access for maturity, but may also be used to guide HD access cannulations and has the…
Lydus Medical is pleased to announce that the Vesseal has received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance. The Vesseal is a microvascular anastomosis…
IceCure Medical, developer of the minimally-invasive ProSense System for cryoablation, which destroys tumours by freezing, today announced interim results from the ICESECRET study for the…
VIETHsymposium (15–19 November, New York City, USA) has played host to a “mini-symposium” on the risk of steal syndrome and distal ischaemia posed by vascular…
Raphaël Coscas (Paris, France) talks to Renal Interventions about the first results of the ABISS trial, comparing drug-coated balloon (DCB) with plain-balloon angioplasty for arteriovenous…
Haemodialysis has traditionally been conducted with dialysate of a temperature of 36.5°C, but the use of a personalised, lower-temperature dialysate is experiencing “rising popularity” with…
Dmed’s NephroFlow device is as effective for ultrasound dilution (UD) for vascular access (VA) as existing devices such as the Transonic VA flow measurement technology,…
Deborah Brouwer-Maier A range of issues in cannulation in arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) have been laid out by Deborah Brouwer-Maier (Transonic Systems, Ithaca, USA) at VEITHsymposium…
Dori Schatell (Medical Education Institute, Madison, USA) spoke at the VEITH Symposium (15–19 November, New York City, USA) on the uses of plastic cannulas in…
Percutaneous endovascular arteriovenous fistula (pAVF) procedures carry a lower risk of steal syndrome and wound infection than surgical arteriovenous fistula creation (sAVF), a new study…
Suresh Mathavakkannan (L), David Kingsmore A debate regarding the optimal place for vascular access creation and management to take place—specialised units or high-volume centres—saw Suresh…
Jonathan de Siqueira A list of 10 key research priorities intended to help standardise vascular access research were delivered to attendees at this year’s Vascular…
Yana Etkin Intraoperative ultrasonographic venous mapping is a useful tool to evaluate vessel suitability for arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation, Yana Etkin (Zucker School of Medicine…
At the recent EndoVascular Access meeting (EVA; 24–25 June, Patras, Greece), and UK Kidney Week (UKKW; 7–9 June, Birmingham, UK), renal healthcare professionals had the…
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