Vascular access infection: survival or mortality.

Methods: We conducted an analysis on 11 cases of death after AVG infection that occurred between 1996 and 2013, and compared their information with those of 23 cases of generalized infection due to arteriovenous graft (AVG) infection during the same period who survived.

Results: The cause of death was sepsis in all 11 patients. The initial C-reactive protein (CRP) was 10.