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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: sullidog on February 27, 2010, 08:50:44 PM

Title: big lump on clotted off graft
Post by: sullidog on February 27, 2010, 08:50:44 PM

I have a golfball size lump on my nonfixable clotted off graft. It's actually growing. My neph told me that it was because the graft was expanding and causing a lot of arterial pressure. I will have my vascular surgeon look at it on Wednesday when I see him. My question is has anyone else had this issue? What is the fix, he says the graft has to be removed, is this true?
Troy

Title: Re: big lump on clotted off graft
Post by: Bajanne on February 28, 2010, 10:19:34 AM

That seems rather large to me.  Whenever I get any slight bump (the size of this icon :laugh: ) the vascular surgeon reroutes my graft and shuts off that flow. So I have about 3 reroutings but whenever there is a move, the last area just closes up.