Introduction: One of the most important problems for patients undergoing hemodialysis due to chronic renal failure is the need for a long-lasting vascular access. The patency of vascular access is affected by many factors. Factors related to surgery are also among these factors. No-touch techniques theoretically and practically prevent endothelial damage due to minimal contact on vascular structures. It is a well-known fact that surgeries performed with these methods also increase long-term survival.
Methods: Patients who underwent distal radiocephalic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) surgery for the first time between 2017 and 2021 were included in our study. The groups, whose cephalic veins were inflated conventionally and not inflated, were compared in a prospective randomized manner.
Results: There was a significant difference between both groups in terms of failure and patency rates, which is one of the study endpoints ( = 0.012). The fact that the patency period is long, and the failure rate is low stands out as the superiority of the fully no-touch technique in AVF surgery. On the other hand, no significant difference was observed in terms of failure to maturation and fistula maturation time.
Conclusions: Fully no-touch technique in AVF surgery should be considered primarily in suitable patients due to its long patency time and low failure rate.
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