14 results match your criteria: "Richmond Vascular Center[Affiliation]"

Introduction: Routine hemodialysis depends on well-functioning vascular access. In the event of vascular access dysfunction, percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty (PTA) is conducted to restore patency. Although an angioplasty procedure can provide an excellent immediate result by opening the access to allow dialysis to continue, the long-term patency rates are less than satisfactory.

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Purpose: To report the 5-year results from the Pivotal Multicenter Trial of Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Arteriovenous Fistula (pAVF) Creation for Hemodialysis Access.

Materials And Methods: The retrospective review of 107 intent-to-treat (ITT) patients from the pivotal trial provided a long-term follow-up population (LTP) of 85 patients with a median follow-up duration of 50 months (range, 12-60 months). Data evaluated in the LTP group were fistula maturation and usage, secondary procedures, and complications.

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Purpose: To present the 12-month outcomes of the IN.PACT AV Access Study, a prospective, single-blind trial enrolling participants with obstructive de novo or restenotic native upper extremity arteriovenous dialysis fistula lesions treated with a drug-coated balloon (DCB) or percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA).

Materials And Methods: After successful high-pressure PTA, participants at 29 international sites were randomized 1:1 to treatment with an IN.

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Maturation for Hemodialysis in the Ellipsys Post-Market Registry.

J Vasc Interv Radiol

September 2020

Richmond Vascular Center, 173 Wadsworth Drive, North Chesterfield, VA 23236.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the maturation of the endovascular arteriovenous fistula system (EndoAVF) for 2-needle cannulation (2NC).

Materials And Methods: From October 2018 to June 2019, evaluation of 123 patients resulted in 95 arteriovenous fistulae, a rate of 63% (60 of 95) EndoAVF, and 37% (35 of 60) fistulae treated surgically. At 4 weeks, EndoAVF was not suitable for 2NC (defined as a palpable target vein [TV], 500 mL/min flow volume, and 5-mm diameter) underwent maturation procedures.

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End-stage kidney disease patients who are candidates for surgical arteriovenous fistula creation commonly experience obstacles to a functional surgical arteriovenous fistula, including protracted wait time for creation, poor maturation, and surgical arteriovenous fistula dysfunction that can result in significant patient morbidity. The recent approval of two endovascular devices designed to create a percutaneous arteriovenous fistula enables arteriovenous fistula creation to be placed in the hands of interventionalists, thereby increasing the number of arteriovenous fistula providers, reducing wait times, and allowing the patient to avoid surgery. Moreover, current studies demonstrate that patients with percutaneous arteriovenous fistula experience improved time to arteriovenous fistula maturation.

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Purpose: The aim of this article is to retrospectively compare snuff box radial artery access with direct fistula access for radiocephalic fistula intervention.

Materials And Methods: Review of 68 consecutive radiocephalic interventions between April 2013 and April 2017 was performed. The snuff box radial access was performed under ultrasound guidance with the hand in a neutral position (thumb up).

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Purpose: To report results of percutaneous costoclavicular bypass for symptomatic thoracic outlet or cephalic arch occlusion in patients with arteriovenous fistula.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective review of percutaneous costoclavicular bypass patients between 2014 and 2018 was performed. Stent grafts were placed subcutaneously over the clavicle from the fistula outflow (axillary or cephalic vein) into a jugular vein or collateral.

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Purpose: To evaluate safety and efficacy of arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) created with a thermal resistance anastomosis device.

Materials And Methods: A prospective single-arm trial at 5 sites enrolled 107 patients. Patients underwent ultrasound (US)-guided anastomosis creation between the proximal radial artery and perforating vein with the Ellipsys Vascular Access System (Avenu Medical, Inc, San Juan Capistrano, California) followed by separate maturation procedures.

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Drug eluting balloon angioplasty for assisted maturation of failing fistulae.

J Vasc Access

March 2018

1 Department of Vascular Surgery, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, Paris - France.

Objective: To present our experience of balloon-assisted maturation with drug-eluting balloon dilation in patients with recurrent failing arteriovenous fistulae.

Case Series: Three patients (all males, mean age 71 years) with a complex history of failed attempts at native fistula creation underwent surgical creation of arteriovenous fistulae. Two patients had a two-stage brachio-brachial fistula and 1 had a brachio-cephalic fistula that also required subsequent elevation.

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Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of arteriovenous fistula (AVF) creation with a thermal resistance anastomosis device (TRAD).

Materials And Methods: From January 2014 to March 2015, 26 patients underwent ultrasound (US)-guided percutaneous creation of proximal radial artery-to-perforating vein AVFs with a TRAD that uses heat and pressure to create a fused anastomosis. Primary endpoints were fistula creation, patent fistula by Doppler US, two-needle dialysis at the prescribed rate, and device-related complications.

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Ultrasound-guided supraclavicular brachial plexus block using 1% and 2% lidocaine in 21 procedures is reported. Average procedure time was 5.1 minutes (± 1.

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Transposition of a deep (9-12 mm) autogenous brachiocephalic vein fistula was required for adequate hemodialysis access in a morbidly obese patient. The patient was a poor candidate for surgical transposition of the upper-arm cephalic vein. As an alternative, retrograde fistula flow was established percutaneously through a 6-F sheath in the forearm cephalic vein with the over-the-wire LeMaitre valvulotome.

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Objective: The goal of this research was to compare side-to-side (STS) and end-to-side (ETS) anastomoses in a computer model of the arteriovenous fistula with computational fluid dynamic analysis.

Methods: A matrix of 17 computer arteriovenous fistula models (SolidWorks, Dassault Systèmes, France) of artery-vein pairs (3-mm-diameter artery + 3-mm-diameter vein and 4-mm-diameter artery +6-mm-diameter vein elliptical anastomoses) in STS, 45° ETS, and 90° ETS configurations with cross-sectional areas (CSAs) of 3.5 to 18.

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Purpose: Report on the anatomic qualification of the snuffbox radial artery (SBRA) and proximal radial artery (PRA) for pAVF.


Methods: Retrospective analysis of upper extremity mapping in 64 limbs in 55 dialysis patients was performed. The radial artery was assessed for diameter, patency, flow and proximity to the adjacent vein to SBRA and PRA.

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