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Taking the weight off the fistula: the importance of vein transposition and fistula evaluation in obese patients

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boxed-textKats M et al. (2007) Impact of obesity on arteriovenous fistula outcomes in dialysis patients. Kidney Int 71: 39–43

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The synopsis was written by Chloë Harman, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. A Asif is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Interventional Nephrology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, USA.,

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Supplementary Fig. 1

A retrograde angiography of a thrombosed radial–cephalic fistula. The patient was referred for absent flow and inability to dialyze. Physical examination (auscultation and palpation) revealed no flow in the fistula. Notice the presence of a juxta-anastomotic stenosis (a). No thrombus was found and simple percutaneous balloon angioplasty restored flow in the fistula (b). (JPG 126 kb)

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