Peripheral artery occlusive disease (PAOD) is more common in patients with diabetes, especially uncontrolled diabetes. PAOD is a major contributing factor in more than half of patients with a diabetic foot ulcer. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is an arterial occlusive diseas

What is Vascular Access Hemodialysis, also called dialysis, is the most common treatment for kidney failure. A dialysis machine is an artificial kidney which cleanses the blood. During dialysis, blood is drawn from the patient into the dialysis machine, circulated through the machine,