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To Ligate or not Ligate Arteriovenous Accesses: CON

Loay Salman Loay Salman, MD, MBA, is chief of the division of nephrology and hypertension, the Thomas Ordway Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Albany Medical College, and the medical director of Dialysis Clinic, Inc., Albany.

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