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Basic Endovascular Skills and Techniques

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Performing interventional procedures requires a different skill set not traditionally associated with nephrology training. It involves mastering fluoroscopic eye-hand coordination, manipulating guidewires, appreciating the behaviors of various guidewires, utilizing catheter combinations and more. Nevertheless, with the right attitude and training, it is something that can be readily learned and mastered.

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  1. Department of Renal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, National University of Singapore YLL School of Medicine, Singapore, Singapore

    Chieh Suai Tan MBBS, MRCP (UK), FAMS

  2. Division of Interventional Nephrology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Chieh Suai Tan MBBS, MRCP (UK), FAMS

  3. Division of Vascular Imaging and Intervention, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Suvranu Ganguli MD

  4. Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    Sanjeeva P. Kalva MD, FSIR

  5. Interventional Nephrology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Steven Wu MD, FASN

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  1. Director, Interventional Nephrology, Medical Director, Hemodialysis Vascular Access Program, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Steven Wu

  2. Chief, Interventional Radiology, Associate Professor of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

    Sanjeeva P. Kalva

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Tan, C.S., Ganguli, S., Kalva, S.P., Wu, S. (2015). Basic Endovascular Skills and Techniques. In: Wu, S., Kalva, S. (eds) Dialysis Access Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09093-1_3

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