This prevents routine venipuncture, with the attendant scarring and superficial thrombophlebitis that results. It is the rare extremity that does not have an adequate basilic vein for AVF ...
First, a policy of balloon angioplasty of the venous anastomosis as the preferred method of reestablishing patency after thrombosis ... the use of the basilic vein as a dialysis conduit rapidly ...
A technic was developed for the permanent implantation of cannulas into an artery and vein of the forearm ... probably owing to venous thrombosis, and who now has an external shunt*: and 1 ...