previous use). Patients were assigned to one of two regimens for locking of the catheter after a hemodialysis session: rt-PA (1 mg in each lumen) once a week, at the midweek session, with ...

Within the first month postinsertion, there were no significant intergroup differences in terms of infection complication rates or noninfection complication rates. (HealthDay News) — Similar ...

Between last summer and the start of this year, Medtronic racked up two Class I tags from the FDA for a pair of recalls that first concerned 1 million hemodialysis catheters and then another ...

Catheter includes two types of lumens (flexible tubular passage) for exchange of blood, which are colored in red and blue for clear identification during dialysis process. The red colored lumen ...

Similar postinsertion complication and technical survival rates are seen with single- and double-purse-string suture catheter insertion methods for peritoneal dialysis, according to a study ...