Jul 15, 2018

A Prospective Clinical Study of a Percutaneous Vascular Access System for Hemodialysis Catheters

Cardiovascular and interventional radiology
Dheeraj K Rajan, Buzz Moran, Thomas J Lobl, Murray R Asch, Andrew W Steele, Charmaine E Lok
CONCLUSIONS: The DermaPortâ„¢ system can be effectively implanted and facilitates catheter interventions in hemodialysis patients requiring long-term catheter use and has a lower infection rate than historical catheter infection rates. Clinical Trial Protocol Number DermaPort-001 (no clinicaltrials.gov number as study was performed 9 years ago). Health Canada Reference Application Number: 118393.