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ReviewJournal of medical ultrasound

Health-care Professionals' Perspectives on Ultrasound Evaluation of Arteriovenous Hemodialysis Fistula: A Narrative Review.

Chung-Ming Fu, Foong-Fah Leong, Sheng-Ying Chung, Wen-Chin Lee

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Review in Journal of medical ultrasound. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Chung-Ming FuDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Foong-Fah LeongDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Sheng-Ying ChungDivision of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Wen-Chin LeeDivision of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arteriovenous hemodialysis fistulas play a critical role in maintaining life on hemodialysis. With the growing use of Doppler ultrasound in nephrology, its utility has expanded to improve the prognosis and quality of life of patients receiving hemodialysis. On a fistula care team, different health-care professionals, including nephrologists, dialysis technicians, and surgeons or vascular interventionalists, require different information. This review article comprehensively explains how Doppler ultrasound evaluation can be beneficial in the management of arteriovenous fistulas from different perspectives of health-care professionals. The article also introduces the pathophysiology of arteriovenous fistula disease and provides a thorough introduction to the use of Doppler ultrasound for the evaluation of arteriovenous fistulas and their associated diseases, addressing the need for a comprehensive understanding among ultrasound practitioners.

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Arteriovenous fistuladialysis vascular accessDoppler ultrasoundhemodialysis

Identifiers

PMID39310856
PMCPMC11414955

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