Buttonhole versus Stepladder Cannulation for Home Hemodialysis: A Multicenter, Randomized, Pilot Trial.

CONCLUSIONS: We were unable to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting a randomized, controlled trial of buttonhole versus stepladder cannulation in Canada with a sufficient number of patients on home hemodialysis to be able to draw meaningful conclusions.
PMID: 30659057 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN - January 18, 2019 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Huang SS, MacRae J, Ross D, Imtiaz R, Hollingsworth B, Nesrallah GE, Copland MA, McFarlane PA, Chan CT, Zimmerman D Tags: Clin J Am Soc Nephrol Source Type: research