Table 2 Intra-operative characteristics of patients undergoing arteriovenous access creation with and without 1-year successful clinical use of the index access for hemodialysis
Index access not used for hemodialysis (abandoned) at 1-year of follow-up (n = 31,370) | Successful clinical use of the index access for hemodialysis at 1-year of follow-up (n = 28,304) | P | |
|---|---|---|---|
Anesthesia | |||
Local | 9326 (29.7) | 7835 (27.7) | < 0.001 |
Regional | 9447 (30.1) | 9257 (32.7) | |
General | 12,540 (40.0) | 11,149 (39.4) | |
Not reported | 57 (0.2) | 63 (0.2) | |
Antibiotics given within 1 hour of intervention | 25,714 (82.0) | 23,200 (82.0) | 0.75 |
Antibiotics stopped within 24 h of intervention | 25,325 (80.7) | 22,950 (81.1) | 0.02 |
Intra-operative inflow artery diameter, mm, mean (SD) | 2.78 (0.50) | 2.95 (0.34) | < 0.001 |
Intra-operative outflow vein diameter, mm, mean (SD) | 3.04 (0.51) | 3.25 (0.35) | < 0.001 |
Concomitant procedures | |||
Venous angioplasty | 50 (0.2) | 39 (0.1) | 0.56 |
Venous stent | 17 (0.05) | 21 (0.07) | 0.42 |
Arterial angioplasty | 8 (0.03) | 6 (0.02) | 0.94 |
Arterial stent | 1 (0.003) | 4 (0.01) | 0.31 |
Arterial endarterectomy | 22 (0.07) | 9 (0.03) | 0.06 |
Venous branch ligation | 539 (1.7) | 448 (1.6) | 0.21 |
Surgical access patch angioplasty | 20 (0.06) | 4 (0.01) | 0.005 |
Superficialization | 152 (0.5) | 134 (0.5) | 0.89 |
Lipectomy | 3 (0.01) | 3 (0.01) | 0.99 |
Other | 516 (1.6) | 382 (1.4) | 0.003 |
Completion study | |||
Doppler | 5,206 (16.6) | 4,984 (17.6) | 0.001 |
Duplex ultrasound | 85 (0.3) | 97 (0.3) | 0.13 |
Fistulogram | 475 (1.5) | 507 (1.8) | 0.009 |
