A retrospective review of the pharmacy computer database was performed to identify hemodialysis patients with central venous catheters who received alteplase or urokinase for presumed catheter ...

Black and Hispanic patients will less frequently than white patients start hemodialysis with an arteriovenous fistula (connecting an artery to a vein for vascular access), a procedure for initial ...

Monitoring of blood flow through hemodialysis shunts, using ultrasound dilution or duplex ultrasound, can provide early warning of a thrombotic blockage. Few studies have investigated the ...

The Arteriovenous Fistula Eligibility system, courtesy of Flow Forward. Med-tech startup Flow Forward LLC said it has raised a total of $7 million in its series A round. The news comes around the same ...

Before 1998, urokinase was considered standard therapy for the management of occluded hemodialysis catheters. The dose of 5000 units per port appears on the FDA-approved labeling for urokinase. Bolus ...