Prevention of peritoneal dialysis catheter-related infections

JB Copley - American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 1987 - Elsevier
tunnel infections with pain and tenderness of the tunnel can … Finally, cellulitis may evolve
from exit-site or tunnel infections … catheter-related infection is often ignored by the patient and …

Dialysis catheters and their common complications: an update

S Banerjee - The Scientific World Journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
infection with discharge or local symptoms should be treated with catheter exchange with
creation of a new tunnel, … Tunnel infection (tunnelitis) should be treated with removal of the old …

Catheter salvage using revision for a peritoneal dialysis catheter with intractable exit site and/or tunnel infections

SH Kang, KH Cho, AY Kim, JY Do - Seminars in Dialysis, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
patients with PD with exit site and/or tunnel infections. In addition, our study included a
homogeneous population (the patients … intractable exit site and/or tunnel infections). A prospective …

Conservative surgical management of catheter infections in children on peritoneal dialysis

F Macchini, S Testa, A Valadè, M Torricelli… - Pediatric surgery …, 2009 - Springer
… Major indications for peritoneal dialysis catheter removal include chronic exit-site
infection (ESI) or tunnel infection (TI). No consensus on the optimal treatment of these …

Infections associated with uremia and dialysis

VR Minnaganti, BA Cunha - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2001 - id.theclinics.com
… With the advent of dialysis for uremia, patients are subject … dialysis, that pose an increased
risk of infections and for the same reasons dialysis patients are at increased risk of infections

Fungal peritoneal dialysis catheter-related exit-site infection combined with tunnel infection: A case report

J Qiao, LX Lu, YT He, CC Men, XX Chu… - Beijing da xue xue …, 2023 - europepmc.org
patient can only withdraw from PD treatment. Here, we report a case of fungal PD catheter ESI
combined with tunnel infectionpatient suffered from peritonitis, ESI and tunnel infection for …

Nontuberculous mycobacteria infections of peritoneal dialysis patients: a multicenter study

A Bnaya, Y Wiener-Well… - Peritoneal Dialysis …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
… Aside two case reports, 22,23 no data on PD NTM infections have been previously reported
patients who were diagnosed with NTM exit-site infection (ESI) with/without tunnel infection (…

Peritoneal infections

B Piraino - Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, 2000 - Elsevier
… Peritoneal dialysis related infections include infection of the catheter exit site, subcutaneous
… is no clinically obvious tunnel infection, an ultrasound of the tunnel to confirm the absence of …

A comparison of peritoneal dialysis-related infections in black and white patients

JL Holley, J Bernardini… - Peritoneal dialysis …, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
… Therefore, 114 exit-site infections in black patients and 99 in white patients were analyzed
… 24 tunnel infections in black patients and 5 of the 24 tunnel infections in white patients were …

The effectiveness of mupirocin preventing Staphylococcus aureus in catheter-related infections in peritoneal dialysis.

E Thodis, P PaSSadakiS, S Panagoutsos… - … on Peritoneal Dialysis, 2000 - europepmc.org
… with regard to peritoneal dialysis (PD)-catheter exit-site infections (ESI), tunnel infections (TI)…
The study was performed on 42 continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients (…