Venous stenosis and occlusion in hemodialysis shunts: follow-up results of stent placement in 65 patients.

Abstract

Stent placement in hemodialysis fistulas helps treat lesions that cannot be adequately treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) alone but has a follow-up patency rate similar to that of PTA. Standard central venous stents have a better patency rate than after PTA.