Hemodialysis can be fatal if ignoring early stenosis signals -The average incidence of stenosis is 40% annually, while thrombosis can be 20%, the issue is not IF my shunt will fail, it is rather WHEN.
Stroke kills about 140,000 Americans each year CDC (1/31/2020), every year more than 795,000 people in the US have a stroke. About 610,000 of these are first or new strokes.