Uncertain timing of vascular access creation and subsequent use may adversely affect patients’ quality of life and health care resource utilization, the investigators noted. The Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) may be useful for vascular access planning in patients approaching kidney failure who require hemodialysis.
Several reports have described a relapse of certain autoimmune kidney diseases in patients after they've received COVID-19 vaccines, but it's unclear if this association is real or a coincidence.