Safety and durable patency of tunneled hemodialysis catheter inserted without fluoroscopy

• Egile Nagusiak: Do Hyoung Kim (Egilea), Sojung Youn (Egilea), Tae Hyun Ban (Egilea), Bum Soon Choi (Egilea), Byung Soo Kim (Egilea), Cheol Whee Park (Egilea), Chul Woo Yang (Egilea), Hoon Suk Park (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: The Korean Society of Nephrology, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Background A tunneled hemodialysis (HD) catheter is preferred due to its lower incidence of infection and malfunction than non-tunneled ones. For safer insertion, fluoroscopic guidance is desirable. However, if the patient is unstable, transfer to the fluoroscopy may be impossible or inappropriate....