Contrast Venography Versus Intravenous Ultrasound in Hemodialysis Arteriovenous Access Dysfunction

Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Jun 17;8(9):1887-1891. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2023.06.013. eCollection 2023 Sep.

Najia Idrees^{1

2}, Samir Haroon³, Yichi Zhang⁴, Joanna Crisa Mangio¹, Jeffrey J Siracuse⁵, Jean M Francis¹, Suvranu Ganguli³, Kevin Daly³, Matthew Diamond³, Rajendran Vilvendhan⁶, Howard Cabral⁷, Laura M Dember⁸, Alik Farber⁵, Vijaya B Kolachalama^{4

9}, Vipul C Chitalia^{1

2

4}

¹ Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Boston MA 02118, USA.
³ Section of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA.
⁵ Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Interventional Radiology, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁷ Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁸ Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, Department of Medicine; Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁹ Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

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Keywords: arteriovenous fistula; chronic kidney disease; fistulogram; graft; hemodialysis; intravenous ultrasound; stenosis.

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