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ArticleIndian journal of nephrology

Straight versus Coiled Catheters in Peritoneal Dialysis in a Tertiary Care Center in Malaysia.

Anna M Abdul Rashid, Mohamad Z Bidin, Christopher T S Lim

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Article in Indian journal of nephrology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 authors.

Anna M Abdul RashidDepartment of Medicine, Level 3, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Mohamad Z BidinDepartment of Medicine, Level 3, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
Christopher T S LimDepartment of Medicine, Level 3, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Despite improvements in insertion techniques and catheter designs, catheter malfunction and infection pose a great source of morbidity and limitation to adequate dialysis. The two most used peritoneal dialysis (PD) catheters are the coiled and straight PD catheters. Existing studies show conflicting results. Methods: This study aims to look at the clinical outcomes and mortality between the two catheter types. This study was designed as an ambidirectional cohort study. A total of 126 patients undergoing PD, with 75 receiving the straight PD catheter and 51 receiving the coiled PD catheter, participated in the study. The primary outcome was catheter survival, and the secondary outcomes included PD failure, catheter-related infections, and all-cause mortality. Results: In the coiled catheter group, 30 (40%) patients had catheter malfunction, whereas the straight catheter group had 15 (29.4%) patients catheter malfunction. However, the survival functions represented by the Kaplan-Meier survival curve did not show any statistical significance ( Conclusions: There is no difference in outcomes between the coiled and straight PD catheters.

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Catheter malfunctioncoiled cathetermortalityperitoneal dialysisstraight catheter

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PMID35967538
PMCPMC9365006

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