Re: Arguments Regarding the ‘All Autogenous’ Vascular Access Policy

Immature public policy for vascular access.

The article by Hurst et al.1 in this issue of JASN demonstrates a much greater proportion of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) initiate hemodialysis (HD) with a native arteriovenous fistula (AVF) when they are patients of the Veterans Administration or Department of Defense, federally capitated systems, versus patients in the US Renal Data System, who receive care in the commercial mar...

Vascular Access in the Elderly: Does One Size Fit All?

of year 1. Younger (70–79 years) patients were more likely to convert to a non-CVC access as compared to those ≥ 80 years old. After adjustment of several factors, this difference between the 2 age groups persisted with greatest significance in the European subpopulation. Furthermore, patients who were maintained on CVC as their primary vascular access had a higher risk of death compared to tho...

Access and Mobility Policy Control at the Network Edge

The fifth generation (5G) system architecture is defined as service-based and the core network functions are described as sets of services accessible through application programming interfaces (API). One of the components of 5G is Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) which provides the open access to radio network functions through API. Using the mobile edge API third party analytics applications ...

Clinical Analysis of Hemodialysis Vascular Access: Comparision of Autogenous Arterioveonus Fistula & Arteriovenous Prosthetic Graft

BACKGROUND Mature autogenous arteriovenous fistulas have better long term patency and require fewer secondary interventions compared to arteriovenous prosthetic graft. Our Study evaluated vascular patency rates and incidence of interventions in autogenous arteriovenous fistulas and grafts. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 166 vascular access operations were performed in 153 patients between De...

Letter to authors and readers regarding the new NIH policy on public access.