title: Central vein hardware: cannot live with it, cannot live without it.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Tushar J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Vachharajani
authors.forename: Shahriar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Moossavi
authors.forename: Tina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rocco