Reverse-Loop Upper Arm Arteriovenous Graft

Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Status: Suspended

Conditions: Blood Vessel Prosthesis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00708825

FEMH 97018

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: A conventional configured prosthetic arteriovenous graft (AVG) usually wastes most upper arm vessels that a reverse-loop design may conserve. This study examined the feasibility of the AVG construction and its outcome.

Methods: Retrospective review of clinical outcomes of reverse-loop upper arm AVG patients. Measures included hemodialysis function, duplex scan, procedural complications, and follow-up interventions

Enrollment: 7 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• compromized forearm and elbow options

Exclusion criteria

• unstable

Trial design

7 participants in 1 patient group

1

Description:

surgical outcome, observation