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Complications with permanent peritoneal dialysis catheters: experience with 154 percutaneously placed catheters
M Allon1, J M Soucie, E J Macon
1Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.
Nephron
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
A prospective study evaluated the complications in 154 patients in whom a permanent peritoneal dialysis catheter was inserted percutaneously from April 1982 to June 1986. Obstruction to flow and fluid leakage occurred in 9.2 and 2.6% of the catheters, respectively. Catheter survival was 64.6 and 48.6% at 1- and 2-year follow-up, respectively. The complication rates and survival of percutaneously placed catheters was comparable to those reported for surgically placed catheters. Percutaneous insertion of Tenckhoff catheters is a viable alternative to using the surgical technique.