Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology of Arteriovenous Accesses for Hemodialysis

Luc Turmel, founding member of the European Vascular Access Society, has published numerous articles about dialysis fistulas and has participated in various conferences and courses on the topic since 1996. Claude J. Renaud, who trained with Luc Turmel, is a native speaker of English (born on the Seychelles islands and working in Singapore). He will be in charge of the translation.

Glory and weakness of interventional radiology in dialysis accesses.- The nephrologist, the interventional radiologist and the place of the vascular access in the treatment of end stage renal disease.- Vascular access strategy.- Natural history of vascular accesses.- Radiological anatomy and pre-operative imaging of upper limb vessels.- Which indications and which imaging method for the dialysis access?.- Psychological and clinical aspects.- Clinical pre-requisites prior to angiography.- Angiography (« fistulography »).- Dilation and stents.- Hand ischemia.- How dealing with the thrombosed access?.- Percutaneous occlusion of dialysis accesses.- Diagnostic and interventional radiology of arterio-venous accesses for hemodialysis: a European perspective.- Clinical complications during and after endovascular treatments.- Immediate and long-term results of interventional radiology in dialysis accesses.- Annexes. Addenda.