Conversion to permanent vascular access is associated with improved markers of hemodialysis efficacy in children: Pediatric nephrology research consortium study

Ali Mirza Onder¹, Joseph T. Flynn², Md Abu Yusuf Ansari⁴, Fang Deng⁵, Marissa DeFreitas⁶, Chryso Katsoufis⁶, Matthew M. Grinsell⁷, Larry Patterson⁸, Jennifer Jetton⁹, Sahar Fathallah-Shaykh¹⁰, Daniel Ranch¹¹, Diego Aviles¹², Lawrence Copelovitch¹³, Eileen Ellis¹⁴, Vimal Chadha¹⁵, Ayah Elmaghrabi¹⁶, Jen-Jar Lin¹⁷, Lavjay Butani¹⁸, Maha Haddad¹⁸, Olivera Marsenic¹⁹, Paul Brakeman²⁰, Raymond Quigley¹⁶, H. Stella Shin²¹, Rouba Garro²¹, Rupesh Raina²², Craig B. Langman⁵, Ellen Wood³, on behalf of the Pediatric Nephrology Research Consortium
¹ Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Batson Children’s Hospital of Mississippi, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS, ² Division of Nephrology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, ³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, ⁴ Department of Data Science, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, ⁵ Kidney Diseases Division, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University and the Ann and Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL, ⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Holtz Children’s Hospital, University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, ⁷ Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Primary Children’s Hospital, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, ⁸ Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s National Health System, Washington, DC, ⁹ Division of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City, IA, ^{1  0} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s of Alabama, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, ^{1  1} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, ^{1  2} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Hospital New Orleans, LSU Heath School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, ^{1  3} Division of Nephrology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ^{1  4} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, AR, ^{1  5} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO, ^{1  6} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Medical Center Dallas, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX, ^{1  7} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Brenner Children’s Hospital, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC, ^{1  8} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Sacramento, CA, ^{1  9} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University School of Medicine, ^{2  0} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA, ^{2  1} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, and ^{2  2} Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA