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O Manca1, G F Pili, M G Murgia
1Department of Renal Disease, S. Michele Hospital, AO Brotzu, Cagliari - Italy.
Abstract:
The choice of vascular access in hemodialysis pediatric patients can be challenging, due to the small diameter of vessels. In the last 19 years, 38 arteriovenous fistulas (AVF) for hemodialysis have been created on 21 patients; 25 of them were radio-cephalic AVF. The evaluation of the vessels was, in the majority of cases, done by clinical criteria. A local anesthesia was used in all surgical procedures. The percentage of early AVF failure was 24%. Long-term AVF survival was 97%, 65% and 55% at respectively 1, 3 and 5 years. Our data indicate that even in pediatric patients the radio-cephalic fistula is the first choice surgical procedure.
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