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Case Report(ISSN: 2770-5447)

Blinded by the Common Causes: Ischemic Monomelic Neuropathy; a Rare Complication after Vascular Access Creation Volume 2 - Issue 4

Awad Magbri*, Mariam El Magbri, Suhail Aftab, Karen Miller, Amanda Sinks, Stephen Ehret, Leisa Niki Canales and Aimee Blankenship RN

  • Surgery and Vascular Center at Regency Park, USA

Received: September 24, 2019;   Published: October 30, 2019

Corresponding author: Awad Magbri, Surgery and Vascular Center at Regency Park, USA

DOI: 10.32474/ACR.2019.02.000141

 

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Abstract

The authors discuss a case of a rare complications of vascular access creation in a hemodialysis patient “ischemic monomelic neuropathy”. This is an ischemic axonal injury to the nerves supplying the left hand after arterio-venous graft placement for hemodialysis. The authors also discuss the diagnosis, pathophysiology and treatment of this rare vascular access complications that sometimes occurs in hemodialysis patients immediately following arterio-venous fistula or graft (AVF or AVG) placement.

Keywords: Ischemic Monomelic Neuropathy; Arterio-Venous Fistula or Graft; Hemodialysis; Nerve Conduction Studies; Steal Syndrome

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