. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 3.

Published in final edited form as: J Vasc Access. 2010 Oct-Dec;11(4):316–322. doi: 10.5301/jva.2010.5774

Table 3.

Non-infectious complications related to PD catheter: 76 patients experienced 87 episodes of non-infectious complications.

	No. of episodes (N=87)	No. of patients (N=76)	Reason for PD catheter removal from non- infectious complications (N=21)^*

Mal-positioning/Tip migration	28	25	8
Obstruction	11	11	6
Catheter leak	8	7	1
Cather extrusion	7	7	1
Hole in the external part	15	14	0
Hematoma around the exit-site	6	6	0
Trauma	3	3	0
Chronic abdominal pain	2	2	1
Mal-functioning due to undocumented reasons	7	7	4

2 additional catheters were removed due to persistent ESI/TI (catheter-related infectious complications).