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Timing of secondary arteriovenous fistula creation avoids tunneled catheter placement
Tushar J Vachharajani1, Naveen K Atray, Sarjit Gill
1Dialysis Access Group of Wake Forest University, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. tvachhar@wfubmc.edu
Seminars in Dialysis
|June 21, 2008
Abstract:
The concept of secondary arteriovenous fistula, though not novel, is seldom practiced for lack of initiative or hesitancy in deciding the appropriate timing to abandon the existing access. We report a case illustrating the benefits of implementing the strategy in an elderly diabetic dialysis patient, successfully avoiding a tunneled cuffed catheter placement.

