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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Infrared Therapy Helps AVF Maturation.

Ninety percent of patients with stage 4 and 5 CKD undergoing AVF creation who received 40 minutes of far infrared therapy three times weekly had physiologic AVF maturation at 3 months, compared with 76% of patients in a control group. The infrared group also had a significantly higher rate of clinical maturation (82% vs. 60%), a higher rate of AVF cumulative unassisted patency (87% vs. 70%), and a lower rate of AVF malfunction (12% vs. 29%) within 12 months. The randomized study was published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases and included 122 patients.

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