ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2017
The Effect of Predialysis Fistula Attempt on Risk of All-Cause and Access-Related Death.
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- UK Kidney Association Clinical Practice Guideline on vascular access for haemodialysis.BMC nephrology · 2025Guideline
- A meta-analysis of the impact of initial hemodialysis access type on mortality in elderly incident hemodialysis population.BMC geriatrics · 2025Pooled it
- ACCESS HD pilot: A randomised feasibility trial Comparing Catheters with fistulas in Elderly patientS Starting haemodialysis.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- Mortality risk associated with permanent central venous catheter use in the oldest-old population: a nationwide cohort study.The Korean journal of internal medicine · 2026Article
- Vascular Access Management in Patients on Catheter-Based Hemodialysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- More than a Last Resort: The Role of Tunneled Catheters in Hemodialysis.Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN · 2026Article
- Patterns and outcomes of vascular access in hemodialysis: a nationwide registry-based study from Romania.Renal failure · 2025Article
- A prospective study of factors associated with successful maturation of arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis.Journal of ultrasonography · 2024Article
- Vascular access type and prognosis in elderly hemodialysis patients: a propensity-score-matched study.Renal failure · 2024Article
- Care Fragmentation, Social Determinants of Health, and Postoperative Mortality in Older Veterans.The Journal of surgical research · 2024Article
- A decade of arteriovenous fistula creations in the ⩾75 years population: Equal opportunity or sub-optimal use of resources.The journal of vascular access · 2024Article
- Primary and specialist care interaction and referral patterns for individuals with chronic kidney disease: a narrative review.BMC nephrology · 2024Review
- Association between Timing of Vascular Access Creation and Mortality in Patients Initiating Hemodialysis: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Japan.American journal of nephrology · 2024Article
- The reasons for comparative effectiveness clinical trials of arteriovenous fistula versus graft strategy in older adults on hemodialysis with a catheter.Clinical nephrology · 2023Article
- The impact of vascular access type on survival in haemodialysis: time for a paradigm shift? A prospective cohort study.Journal of nephrology · 2023Article
- Study protocol of a randomized controlled trial of fistula vs. graft arteriovenous vascular access in older adults with end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis: the AV access trial.BMC nephrology · 2023Article
- Optimising Access Surgery in Senior Haemodialysis Patients (OASIS): study protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2022Article
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- Shared decision-making in hemodialysis vascular access practice.Kidney international · 2021Review
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Abstract
Whether the lower risk of mortality associated with arteriovenous fistula use in hemodialysis patients is due to the avoidance of catheters or if healthier patients are simply more likely to have fistulas placed is unknown. To provide clarification, we determined the proportion of access-related deaths in a retrospective cohort study of patients aged ≥18 years who initiated hemodialysis between 2004 and 2012 at five Canadian dialysis programs. A total of 3168 patients initiated dialysis at the participating centers; 2300 met our inclusion criteria. Two investigators independently adjudicated cause of death using explicit criteria and determined whether a death was access-related. We observed significantly lower mortality in individuals who underwent a predialysis fistula attempt than in those without a predialysis fistula attempt in patients aged <65 years (hazard ratio [HR], 0.49; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 0.29 to 0.82) and in the first 2 years of follow-up in those aged ≥65 years (HR
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