Outpatient CAPD catheter salvage for persistent exit-site/tunnel infection

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-234

  Clouâtre, Yves ^a   Cartier, Pierre ^a   Charbonneau, Robert ^a   Déziel, Clément ^a   Allard, Michel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catheter salvage; Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis; Exit site tunnel infection; Outpatient procedure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY;

AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS, CONTINUOUS AMBULATORY; REOPERATION;

EID: 17444445475     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.2.231     Document Type: Article

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