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Open Access 01-10-2014 | Pictorial Review

Radiological diagnosis of dialysis-associated complications

Authors: Shahin Zandieh, Dina Muin, Reinhard Bernt, Petra Krenn-List, Siroos Mirzaei, Joerg Haller

Published in: Insights into Imaging | Issue 5/2014

Abstract

In daily clinical practice, the radiologist in the context of diagnosis often faces dialysis-associated complications. The complications are numerous and range from infections, catheter dysfunctions, haematomas, cardiovascular diseases, digital ischaemia, and pseudoaneurysms to shunt stenosis. In this pictorial essay, we take a close look at the imaging diagnostics of the most common complications in dialysis patients.

Teaching Points

• The occurrence of venous stenosis in haemodialysis patients is up to 41 %.

• Catheters usually have a fibrin sheath that can be rinsed but not aspirated.

• The steal phenomenon occurs in 75–90 % of patients with a shunt system.

• Arterial pseudoaneurysms can cause a number of complications.

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Title: Radiological diagnosis of dialysis-associated complications
Authors: Shahin Zandieh
Dina Muin
Reinhard Bernt
Petra Krenn-List
Siroos Mirzaei
Joerg Haller
Publication date: 01-10-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Insights into Imaging / Issue 5/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13244-014-0350-4

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