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Vascular access for dialysis in the elderly

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Although not taken in consideration as aspecial issue in current guidelines, vascularaccess in the elderly deserve specificrecommendations as they are quickly enlargingas a group, with particularly high vascularaccess morbidity and failure rate.Hemodynamic and endothelial mechanisms ofaccess failure are reviewed and tentativestrategies to increase the prevalence ofdurable native arteriovenous fistulas areanalysed.

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Ponce, P. Vascular access for dialysis in the elderly. Int Urol Nephrol 33, 571–573 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019550307514

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