Consideration of vein diameter in brachiobasilic arteriovenous fistula technique.

With basilic veins of smaller diameters, the staged basilic vein transposition has higher maturation and 1-year patency rates than the one-stage technique in BBAVF [3]. The evidence for the one-stage technique in patients with larger basilic veins is not as clear [2]. In our study, we had investigated the factors affecting the maturation of one-stage and two-stage brachiobasilic arteriovenous fistulas (BBAVF). [Extracted from the article]