NDT Advance Access originally published online on June 28, 2005
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2005 20(9):1989-1990; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfh947
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Case Report
Vascular access in a hemiplegic deformed arm
University Hospital of Birmingham, Renal Surgery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Correspondence and offprint requests to: Mohie E. Omar, University Hospital of Birmingham, Renal Surgery, Birmingham, UK. Email: Mohieomar@yahoo.com, omohie@hotmail.com
Keywords: arteriovenous fistula; hemodialysis; arm-paralysis
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Successful vascular access is of paramount importance to all patients on haemodialysis, but it becomes critical in an individual patient for whom transplantation is not an option and for whom dialysis offers the only hope for survival. In such patients exhaustion of vascular access sites becomes an increasingly difficult problem. We report a case in which
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