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Central venous catheters play an important role in the treatment of patients with end-stage renal disease. Despite initiatives to improve fistula creation, more than 80% of patients initiated hemodialysis with a catheter, a number that has changed little over the…
In 1908, Takayasu, a Japanese ophthalmologist, reported retinal arteriovenous shunts in a wreathlike distribution around the optic disc and microaneurysms of the retinal vessels in a 19-year-old Japanese woman. In an ensuing discussion, Onishi related similar findings in a patient…