The conventional surgery for removal of Continuous Peritoneal Dialysis catheter is similar to open insertion technique and requires the surgeon to either go through the same incision or make a ...

and in prolonging catheter survival. 1 A future study of interest might be a randomized, controlled trial of incident patients on peritoneal dialysis with three arms: one arm treated with sodium ...

Today, vascular catheter-related bloodstream infections are the most serious and costly healthcare-associated infections. The purpose of this article is to describe the biofilm form of life ...

“In PD patients with benign prostatic obstruction ... required in 5 of the 14 patients who had an indwelling urinary catheter preoperatively. Continence was restored in 5 and improved in ...