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On the Fashioning of Forearm Vein Grafts for Hæmodialysis
Author(s) -
STEPHENSON C. B. S.,
URQUHARTHAY D.,
MORRISON R. B. I.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1972.tb06748.x
Subject(s) - medicine , forearm , fistula , vein , surgery , dialysis , arteriovenous fistula , venous congestion , cephalic vein
The long saphenous vein has been used to construct arterio‐venous fistula in the forearms of five patients who were undergoing intermittent hæmodialysis. This has proved a satisfactory method of allowing dialysis in patients in whom external shunts or direct arterio‐venous fistula have either failed, or have been impracticable. The indications for, and the techniques of, their construction are discussed.