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ArticleArchives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases2024

Cardiac complications of arteriovenous access: a narrative review from a multidisciplinary team perspective.

Melina Stathopoulou, Andreas Tsimpoukis, Konstantinos Tasios, Chrysanthi Papageorgopoulou, Francesk Mulita, Vasileios Leivaditis, Marios Papasotiriou, Levan Tchabashvili, Nikolaos Koutsogiannis, Andreas Antzoulas and 5 more

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Article in Archives of medical sciences. Atherosclerotic diseases, 2024. 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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15 authors.

Melina StathopoulouDepartment of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Andreas TsimpoukisDepartment of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Konstantinos TasiosDepartment of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Chrysanthi PapageorgopoulouDepartment of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Francesk MulitaDepartment of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Vasileios LeivaditisDepartment of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Marios PapasotiriouDepartment of Nephrology and Kidney Transplantation, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Levan TchabashviliDepartment of Surgery, General Hospital of Eastern Achaia, Unit of Aigio, Aigio, Greece.
Nikolaos KoutsogiannisDepartment of Cardiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Andreas AntzoulasDepartment of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Panagiotis KitrouDepartment of Interventional Radiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Platon DimopoulosDepartment of Interventional Radiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Ioannis PanagiotopoulosDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Hippokratio General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos KarydisDepartment of Transplantation Surgery, Department of Surgery General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Spyros PapadoulasDepartment of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece.

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Abstract

Although cardiovascular disease is common among hemodialysis patients, arteriovenous access creation has been invariably implicated in the evolution of adverse cardiac outcomes or deterioration of pre-existing cardiovascular disease. In most cases, these effects are subclinical but with potential underlying echocardiographic findings. Compared with grafts, arteriovenous fistulas are implicated more often, due to the progressively increased flow from the continuous dilatation of the venous outflow tract in the long term. The increasing flow is in the majority of patients well tolerated by cardiac adaptive alterations. However, the clinical impact is based on the balance between the amount of flow volume and the patient's cardiac reserves. Having extensively reviewed the existing English literature, we present the pathophysiology and the different types of cardiovascular complications, the indications, types, and efficacy of flow-restrictive procedures in the context of a high-flow AVF, as well as some precautions and considerations for AVF creation in high-risk patients.

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arteriovenous fistulaend stage renal diseaseflow-restrictive proceduresheart failurehigh flow vascular access

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PMID40007983
PMCPMC11851310

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