[Editors' Note: This article engendered a lively debate among the editors and article selection committee. We invite commentary. Should Staph aureus be treated like any other organism that leads to catheter related blood stream infection? Will the findings affect your practice]
Staphylococcus-Infected Tunneled Dialysis Catheters: Is Over-the-Wire Exchange an Appropriate Management Option?Jessica M. Langer • Raphael M. Cohen • Jeffrey S. Berns • Jesse Chittams • Emily T. Cooper • Scott O. Trerotola
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol (2011) 34:1230–1235
Right atrial thrombi complicating haemodialysis catheters. A meta-analysis of reported cases and a proposal of a management algorithmAristeidis Stavroulopoulos1, Vasiliki Aresti1 and Christos Zounis2
1Nephrology Department, IASIO Hospital-General Clinic of Kallithea, Athens, Greece and 2Cardiology Department, IASIO Hospital-General Clinic of Kallithea, Athens, Greece
NDT Advance Access published December 20, 2011
Nephrol Dial Transplant (2011) 0: 1–9
John D. Kakisis, MD, Efthymios Avgerinos, MD, Triantafyllos Giannakopoulos, MD,Konstantinos Moulakakis, MD, Anastasios Papapetrou, MD, and Christos D. Liapis, MD, Athens, Greece
J Vasc Surg 2011
Transhepatic Venous Approach for Balloon-assisted CervicalCollateral Venous Access
Eduardo P. Eyheremendy • Patricio Malizia • Sergio Sierre
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol (2011) 34:1312–1315
Michael S. Conte, MD,a Helen M. Nugent, PhD,b Peter Gaccione, MA,b Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD,c and Jeffrey H. Lawson, MD, PhD,d San Francisco, Calif; Cambridge,
Mass; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Durham, NC
Journal of Vascular Surgery
November 2011
Vascular access: choice and complications in European paediatric haemodialysis units
Wesley N. Hayes & Alan R.Watson & Nichola Callaghan & Elizabeth Wright & Constantinos J. Stefanidis & On behalf of the European Pediatric Dialysis Working Group
Pediatr Nephrol - Published online 30 December 2011
Patency of Femoral Tunneled Hemodialysis Catheters and Factors Predictive of Patency FailureKirsteen R. Burton • Lancia L. Q. Guo • Kong T. Tan • Martin E. Simons • Kenneth W. Sniderman • John R. Kachura •John R. Beecroft • Dheeraj K. Rajan
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol
Published online 03 December 2011
Access Survival amongst Hemodialysis Patients Referred for Preventive Angiography and Percutaneous Transluminal AngioplastyKevin E. Chan,*† Timothy A. Pflederer,‡ David J. R. Steele,† Michael P. Lilly,§ T. Alp Ikizler, Frank W. Maddux,* and Raymond M. Hakim
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