Dr. Edison Souza from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reports a very unusual boy who was born with an arteriovenous fistulae in his hand. At the tender age of 16 years old he developed chronic renal failure (which requires dialysis and an arteriovenous fistula is normally created for facilitating regular dialysis).

At 24, when Peter Leslie was admitted to hospital on the eve of Christmas he did not imagine that he would have to face the next Christmas with a new kidney. At this age, he had to go for kidney transplantation surgery at the St Mary’s hospital. And now at 67, he is one [...]