Vascular Access Monitoring , Surveillance, and Preemptive Procedures:

This section presents a list of articles that focus on prospective monitoring and surveillance of dialysis vascular access. Several methodologies for evaluating vascular access performance are represented by different articles. Additionally, some articles discuss outcomes of preemptive endovascular intervention on future AV access dysfunction and survival

1. Influence of Luminal Diameters on Flow Surveillance of Hemodialysis Grafts: Insights from a Mathematical Model John J. White, Sunanda J. Ram, Steven A. Jones, Steve J. Schwab, and William D. Paulson. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2006 1: 972-978.

2. Singh N., Ahmad S., Wienckowski, Murray BM: Comparison of access blood flow and venous pressure measurements in arteriovenous graft thrombosis. The Journal of Vascular Access 7:66-73, 2006

3. Choudhury D: Vascular access thrombosis prophylaxis. Seminars in Dialysis 19:335-342, 2006

4. Tessitore N, Lipari G, Poli A, et al : Can blood flow surveillance and pre-emptive repair of subclinical stenosis prolong the useful life of arteriovenous fistulae? A randomized controlled study. Nephrol Dial Transplant 19:2325, 2004

5. Tessitore N, Mansueto G, Bedogna V, et al: A prospective controlled trial on effect of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty on functioning arteriovenous fistulae survival. J Am Soc Nephrol 14:1623, 2003

6. Ram SJ, Work J, Caldito GC, Eason JM, Pervez A, Paulson WD. A randomized controlled trial of blood flow and stenosis surveillance of hemodialysis grafts. Kidney Int 64:272-280, 2003

7. Krivitski NM: Access flow measurement during surveillance and percutaneous transluminal angioplasty intervention. Semin Dial. 16:304-308, 2003

8. Van Der Linden J, Smits JHM, Assink JH, Wolterbeek DW, Zijlstra JJ, De Jong GHT, Van Den Dorpel MA. Blannkestijn PJ. Short and long-term functional effects of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in hemodialysis vascular access. J Am Soc Neph 13:715-720, 2002
9. Begin V, Ethier J, Dumont M, Leblanc M. Prospective evaluation of the intra-access flow of recently created native arteriovenous fistulae. Am.J.Kidney.Dis. 40(6):12771282, 2002
10. Besarab A, Sullivan KL, Ross RP, Moritz MJ. Utility of intra-access pressure monitoring in detecting and correcting venous outlet stenoses prior to thrombosis. Kidney Int. 47:13641373,1995