(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany Stenoses and/or occlusions of the venous runoff do not automatically cause thrombosis of the AV access. If…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany For the hemodynamic investigations we used two different methods: experimental flow investigations in a pulsatile flow system…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany 10.1 Pathophysiology The following experience is exclusively based on ePTFE prostheses. Their surface is uneven, fibrillary, and…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany An infection of a vascular access for hemodialysis constitutes a serious complication which particularly occurs in immuno-compromised…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany An AV vascular access undergoes morphologic and functional changes. These may exert local or systemic influences on…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany 1.1 Introductory Principles In order to provide satisfactory care for a vascular hemodialysis access, it is important…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany 15.1 Renal Transplant Recipients When creating a new AV access or before closing an access which is…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany Secondary lymph edema of the arm after AV access surgery is rare, but it seriously compromises a…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany In this chapter, by central veins we mean the axillary segment of the brachial, the axillary, the…
(1) Department of Vascular Surgery, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge, Berlin, Germany W.D. Brittinger had the basic idea for this kind of hemodialysis access. He was the first to…
