Central venous catheters for hemodialysis -- AV fistulas -- AV shunts -- Arterio-arterial grafts -- Redo surgery with prosthetic grafts -- Infections -- Venous congestion after the creation of AV accesses -- Stenoses and occlusions of central veins -- Leakage of ePTFE grafts (perigraft seroma) -- Insufficient peripheral perfusion and cardiac strain after AV access creation -- Arterial reconstructions of AV accesses -- Lymph edema of the arm after AV access surgery -- Nerve lesions after AV access surgery -- Special patient groups -- Anticoagulation with AV accesses -- Puncture techniques -- Monitoring of vascular accesses -- Histopathology of AV vascular accesses -- Short introduction to fluid dynamics - relevant aspects for hemodynamics -- Our methods.