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Vilte Gabriele Samsone1, Laurynas Rimsevicius1, Marta Kantauskaite1
1Nephrology Center, Faculty of Medicine Vilnius University Vilnius Lithuania.
Clinical Case Reports
|August 12, 2022
Abstract:
The population of patients with end-stage renal disease is rapidly growing and hemodialysis remains the most common treatment option. We present a case of a young patient with arteriovenous fistula (AVF)-related heart failure, and a review of the main hemodynamic changes after AVF formation and ligation procedures.
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