ED Highly Prevalent in Men with Failed Hypospadias Repair Follow-up procedures are significantly more likely to be required if PD catheters are inserted by interventionalists instead of general or ...

A peritoneal dialysis catheter is a soft tube that is inserted into the abdomen in order to remove waste products from the blood (normally removed by the kidneys). Laparoscopic insertion - also known ...

Conducted over 5 years, from 2008 to 2013, this RCT tried to determine the optimal time for peritoneal dialysis (PD) after catheter insertion in patients with stage 5 chronic kidney disease. The ideal ...

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The risk of peritonitis associated with infections of the peritoneal catheter exit site can be reduced by the use of proper exit-site care, such as the routine administration of prophylactic ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . While researchers of this study found “limited complications” associated with urgent-start peritoneal dialysis, ...

A 15-month-old girl with hydrocephalus from an intraventricular hemorrhage presented to the emergency department with irritability, lethargy and vomiting. Our neurosurgery team had inserted a ...

In 1991, we three doctors introduced continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) to kidney patients in India. The first patient to use it was a senior citizen in a hospital in Chennai, a diabetic ...

Merit Medical Systems has acquired Medigroup, maker of abdominally inserted dialysis catheters--courtesy of Medigroup A week after spending $167 million on a GE ...