Table 5.
Incidence of NTHC-related complications
| Catheter-related complications | NTHCs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right internal jugular vein | Left internal jugular vein | Femoral vein | Subclavian vein | |
| Infection | ||||
| Exit-site infection | ||||
| % | 36.7 | 36.2 | 48.37 | 35.48 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 8.79 | 8.54 | 19.66 | 8.85 |
| Tunnel infection | ||||
| % | – | – | – | – |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | – | – | – | – |
| CRBSI | ||||
| % | 16.51 | 17.39 | 29.77 | 17.74 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 3.57 | 3.61 | 9.93 | 3.75 |
| Dysfunction | ||||
| Thrombus | ||||
| % | 58.7 | 59.42 | 78.6 | 58.06 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 14.74 | 15 | 29.98 | 14.79 |
| Fibrin shell | ||||
| % | 13.76 | 14.49 | 4.19 | 14.53 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 1.53 | 1.9 | 0.39 | 1.69 |
| Malposition or kinking | ||||
| % | 24.31 | 37.68 | 45.12 | 24.19 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 4.37 | 10.06 | 19.86 | 4.86 |
| Central venous stenosis | ||||
| % | 3.67 | 4.35 | 0 | 8.06 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 0.45 | 0.27 | 0 | 0.62 |
CRBSI, catheter-related bloodstream infection; NTHC, non-tunnel haemodialysis catheter.