The DOQI guidelines acknowledge the problems with basilic vein transposition (BVT) as two: the transposition may create significant arm swelling and patient pain or may have a higher incidence of ...

The use of such veins or other access points, such as cephalic, basilic, or dorsal hand veins ... Asking the patient to make a fist or perform light arm exercises can stimulate blood flow ...

In those patients in whom a bilateral BVT fistula was placed, the fistula in each arm was considered ... Surgical revisions of the basilic fistula included vein patch angioplasty, transection ...