Urgent Start Intermittent Peritoneal Dialysis Leads to Reduction of Catheter-Related Infection and Increased Peritoneal Dialysis Penetration.
CONCLUSIONS: The introduction of IPD as bridging therapy while awaiting maturation of permanent vascular access significantly reduced the utilization of NCC in incident HD patients and catherter-related blodstream infection. With this, it is our hope that it will contribute to the preservation of central vein patency.
PMID: 30384954 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - Category: General Medicine Authors: Shanmuganathan M, Goh BL, Lim CTS Tags: Am J Med Sci Source Type: research
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