Group Description Causes/examples 1 PAH Idiopathic, hereditary, drug/toxin induced, connective tissue, congenital heart, etc. 2 PH from left heart disease Systolic or diastolic dysfunction, vale disease 3 PH from lung…
Fig. 8.1 Dr. Belding Scribner discusses the evolution of hemodialysis with Dr. McCormick at the University of Washington This arteriovenous shunt was made on the morning of March 9, 1960…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Sherene Shalhub, Anahita Dua and Susanna Shin (eds.)Hemodialysis Access10.1007/978-3-319-40061-7_28 28. Understanding Intimal Hyperplasia Biology in Hemodialysis Access Seth T. Purcell1, 2, Shruti Rao1 and Ruth L. Bush1 (1) Deapartment of Surgery, Texas A&M Health Science Center…
Fig. 24.1 The reported major etiologies of end-stage renal disease in pediatric population, with respective proportions of each etiology Patient Selection Despite having the knowledge that fistulae are better than…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Sherene Shalhub, Anahita Dua and Susanna Shin (eds.)Hemodialysis Access10.1007/978-3-319-40061-7_26 26. Creating Hemodialysis Access in Intravenous Drug Users: A Vascular Surgeon’s Perspective Nam T. Tran1 (1) Department of Surgery, University of Washington School of…
Comorbidity Number Percentage (%) Median age (years) Angina 1845 16.9 71.3 MI in past 3 months 339 3.1 70.7 MI > 3 months ago 1304 11.9 70.8 CABG/ angioplasty 837…
Fig. 6.1 Numbers of dialysis patients and their aging (Modified from Ref. [3]. The data reported here have been provided by the Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT). The interpretation…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Sherene Shalhub, Anahita Dua and Susanna Shin (eds.)Hemodialysis Access10.1007/978-3-319-40061-7_7 7. Hemodialysis Access: Fundamentals and Advanced Management, the Experience in Taiwan Shang-Feng Yang1, 3, Kuo-Hua Lee2, 3 and Chih-Ching Lin2, 3 (1) Division of Nephrology,…
Fig. 2.1 Vascular access use at the initiation of dialysis. Eighty percent of patients initiate dialysis with a catheter Complications of Catheter Use In 2011, USRDS reported that 51 %…
Description CPT code 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Cephalic transposition 36818 18.75 19.07 20.8 20.57 20.45 19.64 20.36 Basilic transposition 36819 21.98 22.71 24.77 22.74 22.46 21.57 21.56…
