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#192 Dialysis for the Internist with Joel Topf MD

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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How to Tell if You Can Graft Versus Fistula

The fistula usually takes 60 to 90 days to mature after the surgical creation. If it does mature, there's a pretty significant failure rate for the maturation. The grafts take about three weeks to mature. And then kind of within the hemodialysis options, we have a TDC we can use immediately,. And AVG, the graft we can use, we said a couple weeks and then a fistula a few months with a high failure rate.

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