Use of the Viabahn covered stent for the treatment of venous rupture during interventions of dysfunctional or thrombosed hemodialysis vascular access.

Treatment of angioplasty-induced vessel rupture of hemodialysis vascular accesses by using Viabahn covered stents has good immediate outcomes and patency results at the stent area. Nonetheless, the patency rate of entire access circuit was still below the threshold recommended by guidelines.