North Carolina Nephrology

Capital Access Center Capital Nephrology Associates is pleased to provide modern hemodialysis vascular access care in a state-of-the-art outpatient facility. The access center is designed to provide timely procedural interventions on dialysis access in a convenient and comfortable setting. The facility is located on the first floor of Wake Plaza across the street from Wake Med Hospital on New Bern Ave in Raleigh, NC. Jeff Hoggard MD, our medical director, is credentialed in interventional nephrology procedures, is a board certified nephrologist, and has performed over 9000 interventional procedures. Hemodialysis vascular access has been described as the "lifeline" of the dialysis patient. At the Capital Access Center our goal is to help create and protect this lifeline. This expert care is provided according to national guidelines and standards and is more expeditious and less costly than access care at the hospital. 1. Declot or Thrombectomy - This procedure removes the clot and re-establishes blood flow in the dialysis access. A clotted dialysis access cannot be used for hemodialysis until the access is declotted, and therefore, we aim to perform this procedure as soon as the clotted access is discovered.