I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
November 25, 2024, 01:23:14 AM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
532606 Posts in 33561 Topics by 12678 Members
Latest Member: astrobridge
* Home Help Search Login Register
+  I Hate Dialysis Message Board
|-+  Dialysis Discussion
| |-+  Dialysis: General Discussion
| | |-+  Anyone know anything about and angiogram for a fistula?		 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: Anyone know anything about and angiogram for a fistula?  (Read 1695 times)
bette1
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 316


My dear daughter
« on: February 15, 2009, 06:24:38 PM »
I am supposed to get an angiogram on my upper arm fistula.  I was put in Nov of '08 and we haven't been able to use it yet.  They saw some narrowing in it and suggested an angiogram.  How successful are they?  Has anyone ever had one?

I'm very nervous.  Of course the doctors say it's no big deal, but it's not their body.
Logged
Diagnosed with FSGS April of 1987
First Dialysis 11/87 - CAPD
Transplant #1 10/13/94
Second round of Dialysis stated 9/06 - In Center Hemo
Transplant  #2 5/24/10
kitkatz
Member for Life
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 17042
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 06:26:03 PM »
They usually go in with a needle and a balloon and pump up the narrow area.  Hurts for a few minutes and the arm is sore for a few days.
Logged


lifenotonthelist.com

Ivanova: "Old Egyptian blessing: May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk." Babylon 5

Remember your present situation is not your final destination.

Take it one day, one hour, one minute, one second at a time.

"If we don't find a way out of this soon, I'm gonna lose it. Lose it... It means go crazy, nuts, insane, bonzo, no longer in possession of ones faculties, three fries short of a Happy Meal, wacko!" Jack O'Neill - SG-1
jbeany
Member for Life
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 7536


Cattitude
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2009, 06:30:19 PM »
They usually call them fistulagrams - check on here, there are plenty of posts about them. 
Logged
"Asbestos Gelos"  (As-bes-tos yay-lohs) Greek. Literally, "fireproof laughter".  A term used by Homer for invincible laughter in the face of death and mortality.
swramsay
Full Member
***
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 188


My son, Scotland, is my heartbeat.

WWW
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2009, 03:46:21 PM »
when I had my catheter out, the doc said I had some narrowing in my fistula and an angiogram would help open that area up. It would cause more problems in my poor circulation in my hand however.
Logged
JUST KEEP GOING.
March 2009: NxStage Pureflow Home Dialysis 5-6 x's week
Sept 2008: In center dialysis
Sept 2008: Left kidney removed (bladder cancer)
April 2006: Right kidney removed (bladder cancer). Chemo for lymph node mets.
April 2004: Bladder removed plus hysterectomy & neobladder made (bladder cancer)
Feb 1994: Original bladder cancer diagnosis & beginning of this journey

www.marykay.com/wramsay
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
 
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP SMF 2.0.17 | SMF © 2019, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!