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Hemodialysis grafts are a cornerstone of access therapy. The conception of prosthetic grafts revolutionized vascular access and gave rise to a number of new access sites that were previously unavailable, when creation of an AVF was the sole option. However, this new type of vascular access presented a whole new set of challenges and complications, driving expenditures for dialysis access to another level. Today the health and social realities of ESRD are tremendous, with economic costs in the USA estimated at more than 2.9 billion dollars to maintain malfunction dialysis access. This chapter discusses dialysis grafts.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    Shawn M. Gage PA & Jeffrey H. Lawson MD, PhD

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    Shawn M. Gage PA & Jeffrey H. Lawson MD, PhD

  3. Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA

    Ehsan Benrashid MD & Linda M. Youngwirth MD

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Gage, S.M., Benrashid, E., Youngwirth, L.M., Lawson, J.H. (2017). Hemodialysis Grafts. In: Shalhub, S., Dua, A., Shin, S. (eds) Hemodialysis Access. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40061-7_18

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