Catheters, Indwelling

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case-control comparison of durability and cost between implanted reservoir and percutaneous catheters in cancer patients. 
  • A novel paraplegia model in awake behaving macaques. 
  • A nurse's guide to early detection of umbilical venous catheter complications in infants. 
  • A pilot study: 131I-antitenascin monoclonal antibody 81c6 to deliver a 44-Gy resection cavity boost. 
  • A prospective, multicenter pilot study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of using the CoolGard System and Icy catheter following cardiac arrest. 
  • A quality improvement program for hemodialysis vascular access. 
  • A randomized, prospective trial of central venous ports connected to standard open-ended or Groshong catheters in adult oncology patients. 
  • A survey on the clinical use of epidural catheters for acute pain management. 
  • A technique for improved blood sampling during sleep studies. 
  • Abnormal gastric tonometric variables and vasoconstrictor use after left ventricular assist device insertion. 
  • Absence of adverse outcomes in hyperkalemic patients undergoing vascular access surgery. 
  • Acquired thrombotic risk factors in the critical care setting. 
  • An intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the ICU. 
  • Analysis of matched samples. 
  • Anastomotic contracture and incontinence after radical prostatectomy: a graded approach to management. 
  • Anatomy and physiology of venous system vascular access: implications. 
  • Anesthetic management of a pediatric Wada test. 
  • Anterior and posterior, but not cheek, intraoral cannulation procedures elevate serum corticosterone levels in neonatal rat pups. 
  • Antibodies to prothrombin, factor V, and beta2-glycoprotein I and vascular access thrombosis. 
  • Antibodies to topical bovine thrombin correlate with access thrombosis. 
  • Antifungal catheter lock therapy for the management of a persistent Candida albicans bloodstream infection in an adult receiving hemodialysis. 
  • Are physicians aware of which of their patients have indwelling urinary catheters? 
  • Arteriovenous grafts are associated with earlier catheter removal and fewer catheter days in the United States Renal Data System population. 
  • Bacterial colonization of intravenous catheter materials in vitro and in vivo. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in a child with a Broviac catheter. 
  • Bacterial endocarditis in hemodialysis patients. 
  • Bleeding in acute coronary syndromes and percutaneous coronary interventions: position paper by the Working Group on Thrombosis of the European Society of Cardiology. 
  • Candida infective endocarditis. 
  • Catheter access for hemodialysis: an overview. 
  • Catheter-related bacteremia and outcome of attempted catheter salvage in patients undergoing hemodialysis. 
  • Catheter-related bacteremia in patients undergoing hemodialysis. 
  • Catheter-related bloodstream infections in children. 
  • Catheter-related sepsis refractory to antibiotics treated successfully with adjunctive urokinase infusion. 
  • Caval catheterization in the intensive care nursery: a useful means for providing parenteral nutrition to the extremely low birth-weight infant. 
  • Central line "attention" is their best prevention. 
  • Central venous catheter integrity during mechanical power injection of iodinated contrast medium. 
  • Central venous catheters coated with minocycline and rifampin for the prevention of catheter-related colonization and bloodstream infections. A randomized, double-blind trial. The Texas Medical Center Catheter Study Group. 
  • Comparison of transposed brachiobasilic fistulas to upper arm grafts and brachiocephalic fistulas. 
  • Complications associated with indwelling catheters. 
  • Complications of implantable venous access devices in patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation: a sheep model of fetal hydrops. 
  • Contamination of catheter-drawn blood cultures. 
  • Conversion of indwelling chest port catheters to tunneled central venous catheters. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of transesophageal echocardiography to determine the duration of therapy for intravascular catheter-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Current definitions of central line-associated bloodstream infection: is the emperor wearing clothes? 
  • Decreasing the Incidence of Tuohy-Borst Clamp Connector Disconnections From Perineural Catheters: A Quality Improvement Study. 
  • Delayed compared with immediate use of peritoneal catheter in pediatric peritoneal dialysis. 
  • Device-related infections in children. 
  • Dialysis access infections. 
  • Direct aortic cannulation for port-access mitral or coronary artery bypass grafting. 
  • Early infection risk with primary versus staged Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow (HeRO) graft implantation. 
  • Efficacy of antimicrobial-impregnated external ventricular drain catheters: a prospective, randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Efficacy of saline vs heparin in maintaining 24-gauge intermittent intravenous catheters in a rabbit model. 
  • Efficiency and outcomes of emergent vascular access procedures performed at a dedicated outpatient vascular access center. 
  • Electrical stimulation of the conus medullaris to control the bladder in the paraplegic patient. A 10-year review. 
  • Estimation of cardiac conduction velocities using small data sets. 
  • Evaluation of an antimicrobial-impregnated continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis catheter for infection control in rats. 
  • Evaluation of neonatal peripherally inserted central catheter tip movement in a consistent upper extremity position. 
  • Experience with minimal complications in implanted catheters in children. 
  • Factors affecting pain scores during female urethral catheterization. 
  • Fatal non-thrombotic pulmonary embolization in a patient with undiagnosed factitious disorder. 
  • Foreign body reaction to rubber Torkildsen catheters: a report of two cases. 
  • Frequency of anti-heparin-platelet factor 4 antibodies in hemodialysis patients and correlation with recurrent vascular access thrombosis. 
  • Gram-negative bacteremia upon hospital admission: when should Pseudomonas aeruginosa be suspected? 
  • Hemodialysis arteriovenous access: detection of stenosis and response to treatment by vascular access blood flow. 
  • Hemodialysis vascular access: effect on urea kinetics and the dialysis prescription. 
  • Hippocampal infusions of MARCKS peptides impair memory of rats on the radial-arm maze. 
  • Hydrogen peroxide instillations into the urinary drainage bag: should we or shouldn't we? 
  • Hypercoagulable states and antithrombotic strategies in recurrent vascular access site thrombosis. 
  • Impact of central venous catheter type and methods on catheter-related colonization and bacteraemia. 
  • Implementation of the Dialysis Outcomes Quality Initiative Vascular Access Guidelines. 
  • Importance of aggressive evaluation in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • In vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein among clinical bacteremic isolates of Staphylococcus aureus correlates with an endovascular infectious source. 
  • In vitro resistance to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein in isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from endocarditis patients correlates with an intravascular device source. 
  • Indwelling catheters for the management of refractory malignant ascites: a systematic literature overview and retrospective chart review. 
  • Infective endocarditis caused by daptomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis: a case report. 
  • Infective endocarditis due to Staphylococcus aureus: 59 prospectively identified cases with follow-up. 
  • Inflammatory cutaneous reactions to epidural catheters. 
  • Initial experience and outcome of a new hemodialysis access device for catheter-dependent patients. 
  • Interstitial thermoradiotherapy with ferromagnetic implants for locally advanced and recurrent neoplasms. 
  • Intraperitoneal chromic phosphate P 32 suspension therapy of malignant peritoneal cytology in endometrial carcinoma. 
  • Intrapleural analgesia for post-thoracotomy pain and blood levels of bupivacaine following intrapleural injection. 
  • Intravascular catheter-associated infections. 
  • Is an increased dwell time of a peripherally inserted catheter associated with an increased risk of bloodstream infection in infants? 
  • Lessons learned from 118,970 multidetector computed tomographic intravenous contrast material administrations: impact of catheter dwell time and gauge, catheter location, rate of contrast material administration, and patient age and sex on volume of extravasate. 
  • Leuconostoc bacteremia in pediatric patients with short bowel syndrome: case series and review. 
  • Low-dose vs standard-dose unfractionated heparin for percutaneous coronary intervention in acute coronary syndromes treated with fondaparinux: the FUTURA/OASIS-8 randomized trial. 
  • Management of peripheral nerve block catheters at home. 
  • Modifiable risk factors for vascular access site complications in the IMPACT II Trial of angioplasty with versus without eptifibatide. Integrilin to Minimize Platelet Aggregation and Coronary Thrombosis. 
  • Multi-center experience of 164 consecutive Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow [HeRO] graft implants for hemodialysis treatment. 
  • Neuro-anatomic mapping of dopamine D1 receptor involvement in nicotine self-administration in rats. 
  • Nonsurgical management of obstructive aortic thrombosis complicated by renovascular hypertension in the neonate. 
  • Novel routes of opioid administration in the management of cancer pain. 
  • Optimal management of malignant pleural effusions (results of CALGB 30102). 
  • Patients started on hemodialysis with tunneled dialysis catheter have similar survival after arteriovenous fistula and arteriovenous graft creation. 
  • Peritoneoscopy in the management of catheter malfunction during continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. 
  • Phase III randomized trial of CED of IL13-PE38QQR vs Gliadel wafers for recurrent glioblastoma. 
  • Polytetrafluoroethylene hemoaccess site infections. 
  • Prevention of intrathecal baclofen withdrawal syndrome: successful use of a temporary intrathecal catheter. 
  • Prolonged convection-enhanced delivery into the rat brainstem. 
  • Prolonged use of an implantable central venous access system in a child with severe hemophilia. 
  • Prospective evaluation of a Dacron cuffed hemodialysis catheter for prolonged use. 
  • Randomized Controlled Trial of Octyl Cyanoacrylate Skin Adhesive versus Subcuticular Suture for Skin Closure after Implantable Venous Port Placement. 
  • Randomized Trial of Pleural Fluid Drainage Frequency in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusions. The ASAP Trial. 
  • Re: Noninvasive repair of broken tunneled pleural catheters. 
  • Recognition, prevention, and treatment of home total parenteral nutrition central venous access complications. 
  • Recurrent thrombosis of the superior vena cava associated with activated protein C resistance: imaging findings. 
  • Reducing the risk of hemodialysis access. 
  • Reduction in vascular access site bleeding in sequential abciximab coronary intervention trials. 
  • Reduction of exit-site infections of tunnelled intravascular catheters among neutropenic patients by sustained-release chlorhexidine dressings: results from a prospective randomized controlled trial. 
  • Relationship between clinical outcomes and vascular access type among hemodialysis patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. 
  • Relative risks of ventriculostomy infection and morbidity. 
  • Safety and efficacy of catheter directed thrombolysis in children with deep venous thrombosis. 
  • Safety of intraparenchymal convection-enhanced delivery of cintredekin besudotox in early-phase studies. 
  • Sensitivity and specificity of the thermodilution technique in detection of access recirculation. 
  • Should interstitial thermometry be used for deep hyperthermia? 
  • Silastic cuffed catheters for hemodialysis vascular access: thrombolytic and mechanical correction of malfunction. 
  • Spinal cord neural anatomy in rats examined by in vivo magnetic resonance microscopy. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in the surgical patient: a prospective analysis of 73 postoperative patients who developed Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at a tertiary care facility. 
  • Systemic Torulopsis glabrata infection in a neonate. 
  • Temozolomide delivered by intracerebral microinfusion is safe and efficacious against malignant gliomas in rats. 
  • The Use of Indwelling Tunneled Pleural Catheters for Recurrent Pleural Effusions in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies: A Multicenter Study. 
  • The Utility of Ultrasound to Diagnose Tunnel-Tract Infection Related to Indwelling Pleural Catheters. 
  • The case against chronic venous hemodialysis access. 
  • The clinical and prognostic importance of positive blood cultures in adults. 
  • The development of a risk score for unplanned removal of peripherally inserted central catheter in newborns. 
  • Thoracic Nerve Root Entrapment by Intrathecal Catheter Coiling: Case Report and Review of the Literature. 
  • Transhepatic catheter access for hemodialysis. 
  • Transluminal intracoronary reperfusion catheter: a device to maintain coronary perfusion between failed coronary angioplasty and emergency coronary bypass surgery. 
  • Transradial coronary stenting: comparison with femoral access closed with an arterial suture device. 
  • Treatment of infected tunneled venous access hemodialysis catheters with guidewire exchange. 
  • Understanding patient preferences for femoral central venous catheterization among patients with sickle cell disease. 
  • Ureteral stenting during extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy: help or hindrance? 
  • Use of an inferior epigastic arterial catheter in a patient with difficult vascular access. 
  • Use of triple-lumen subclavian catheters for administration of total parenteral nutrition. 
  • Validation of haemodialysis recirculation and access blood flow measured by thermodilution. 
  • Vascular access infections in patients undergoing dialysis with special emphasis on the role and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus. 
  • Vascular access site complications after percutaneous coronary intervention with abciximab in the Evaluation of c7E3 for the Prevention of Ischemic Complications (EPIC) trial. 
  • Wandering epidural catheter. 
  • We still go for the jugular: implications of the 3SITES central venous catheter study for nephrology. 
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  • Kim, Charles Yoon, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Interventional Radiology
  • Preminger, Glenn Michael, James F. Glenn, M.D. Professor of Urology, Surgery
  • Sampson, John Howard, Robert H., M.D. and Gloria Wilkins Professor of Neurosurgery, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology