Central vein hardware: cannot live with it, cannot live without it.
Central vein catheters for dialysis have become an integral and unavoidable access modality for providing hemodialysis therapy despite all their major drawbacks. We report a clinical decision dilemma that every nephrologist will encounter while considering an ideal dialysis access for the steadily aging dialysis population.
Vachharajani
Tushar J
TJ
Dialysis Access Group of Wake Forest University, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA. tvachhar@wfubmc.edu
Moossavi
Shahriar
S
Kaufman
Tina
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Rocco
Michael
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