Farooq Ahmad Ganie

Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India

Publications

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  Author(s): Hakeem Zubair Ashraf*, Mohd Yaqoob Khan, Abid Aziz Kangoo, Nadeem-Ul-Nazeer Kawoosa, Farooq Ahmad Ganie, Haroon Naqshi, Abdul Majeed Dar and Ghulam Nabi Lone
  
  Aim: To study the outcome and therapeutic validity of surgical management of juxta-anastomotic aneurysms in native arterio-venous fistulae in chronic kidney disease patients on hemodialysis. Material and Methods: We included fifty patients of Chronic kidney disease who were on maintenance haemodialysis in the Department of Nephrology and had developed arteriovenous aneurysmal swellings during the course of repeated vessel puncture and cannulations. The morpho-volumetric quantification of the aneurysms and blood flow pattern studies were made. After proper medical optimization, patients were taken up for surgical exploration of the aneurysmal fistulae. Results: The group included 22 males and 28 females with a mean age of 47 (+/-7) years. The mean period of aneurysm formation was 22 (+/-8) months.The mean size of the .. Read More»