In Vitro Study of a Medical Device to Enhance Arteriovenous Fistula Eligibility and Maturation.

The arteriovenous fistula eligibility (AFE) system (Flow Forward Medical, Olathe, KS) is a small, temporary, wearable rotary blood pump system designed to rapidly dilate peripheral veins in hemodialysis patients and improve outcomes after arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation. A benchtop pulsatile mock circulatory loop was developed to model forearm circulation and to compare the hemodynamics of the AFE system with those of a conventional radiocephalic AVF. The AFE system maintained a mean wall shear stress (mWSS) within the 2.