Part of the Heart Lung Vascular Institute

Vascular Access Center

Main Campus

Address

1940 Alcoa Highway

Knoxville, TN 37920

Phone

865-305-6655

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Our Services

The Vascular Access Center at the University of Tennessee Medical Center provides comprehensive vascular access care to Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stage Renal Disease patients throughout the region. 

  • If your vascular access is red, swollen and/or warm to touch.
  • If you have drainage coming from your vascular access.
  • If you have a fever for an unknown reason.
  • If the thrill or “buzzing” of your fistula or graft has stopped or is not as strong.
  • If you have bleeding from your dialysis access that does not stop with direct pressure after 30 minutes.
  • If you are told by your dialysis nurse that your dialysis is not adequate.
  • If you have any other problems with your vascular access.

For after-hours vascular access issues, please call the on-call vascular surgeon at 865-305-8040. For other emergencies please call 911 or your nephrologist.

  • Tunneled Dialysis Access Catheter Placements 

  • Arterio-Venous Fistula Creations 

  • Arterio- Venous Graft Placements 

  • Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Placements 

  • Complex Dialysis Access 

Prepare for Your Visit

Address

1940 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, TN 37920

Where we are

Building E, Suite 150

parking

Parking Garage 4 OR Parking Garage G

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About Us

The Vascular Access Center at the University of Tennessee Medical Center provides comprehensive vascular access care to Chronic Kidney Disease and End Stage Renal Disease patients throughout the region.

The center’s focus is to create a virtually seamless flow through the medical center.

Its goal is to provide you with a quality functional vascular access, as well as keeping you from missing dialysis treatments and having unnecessary hospitalizations. This will be achieved through a team approach between the vascular access coordinator, your dialysis clinic, your nephrologist and your vascular surgeon.

The center is committed to offer you the advances being made in the vascular access field and to provide these services to you as they become available.