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Nephrol Dial Transplant (2000) 15: 1453-1454
© 2000 European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association

Case Reports

Ultrasound-guided compression repair of pseudoaneurysms complicating a forearm dialysis arteriovenous fistula

Misha Witz1, Miriam Werner2, Jacques Bernheim3,, Ali Shnaker1, Jonathan Lehmann1 and Ze'ev Korzets3

1 Unit of Vascular Surgery and Departments of 2 Radiology and 3 Nephrology, Meir Hospital, Kfar-Saba and the Sackler School of Medicine, University of Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Keywords: arteriovenous fistula (AVF); dialysis; pseudoaneurysm; ultrasound-guided compression (UGC)



   Introduction
 
Manual ultrasound guided compression (UGC) has become the initial treatment of choice for post-catheterization pseudoaneurysms of the femoral artery [1–3]. However, we have found only one report of the use of this technically simple, cost-effective procedure in the treatment of pseudoaneurysms complicating a dialysis arteriovenous fistula (AVF) in the arm [4]. We have recently successfully treated three such patients with UGC resulting in thrombosis of the false aneurysm and salvage of the vascular access. . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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