Thrombosis due to anastomotic site stenosis is the most common complication in patients with brachio-axillary arteriovenous graft (AVG). Intravascular stent placement may play a special role in the salvage of dialysis grafts that have been previously performed percutaneous angioplasty or surgical procedure on the graft. Herein, we applied a novel stent named Supera which has a high degree of flexibility and resistance to external compression for treating a patient with recurrent venous anastomotic stenosis of brachio-axillary AVG.
We report a case of the patient with end-stage renal disease who presented with brachio-axillary AVG malfunction.
The patient underwent repeated percutaneous angioplasty with thrombectomy for total graft occlusion, and we placed the Supera stent to salvage the graft.