Table 6.
Complications associated with different types of catheter
| Catheter-related complications | TVC type |
NTHC type |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palindrome | Permcath | Cannon II Plus | HemoSplit | ARROW | DIALL | ABEL | TYCO | |
| Infection | ||||||||
| Exit-site infection | ||||||||
| % | 15.69 | 15.38 | 15.24 | 16.09 | 36.08 | 36.2 | 35.97 | 35.58 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 5.12 | 5.08 | 4.97 | 5.17 | 8.96 | 9.08 | 9.05 | 8.82 |
| Tunnel infection | ||||||||
| % | 12.75 | 13.19 | 12.38 | 13.79 | – | – | – | – |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 2.74 | 2.7 | 2.75 | 2.83 | – | – | – | – |
| CRBSI | ||||||||
| % | 35.29 | 35.16 | 35.24 | 35.63 | 17.09 | 17.18 | 17.27 | 17.31 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 6.53 | 6.43 | 6.5 | 6.68 | 3.48 | 3.54 | 4.05 | 3.65 |
| Catheter dysfunction | ||||||||
| Thrombus | ||||||||
| % | 22.55 | 38.46 | 39.05 | 49.42 | 57.59 | 57.67 | 57.55 | 57.69 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 5.32 | 8.76 | 7.31 | 9.8 | 15.01 | 15.03 | 14.51 | 14.86 |
| Fibrin shell | ||||||||
| % | 38.24 | 38.46 | 38.1 | 37.93 | 13.92 | 14.11 | 13.67 | 13.46 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 2.25 | 2.06 | 2.1 | 2.07 | 1.49 | 1.53 | 1.6 | 1.51 |
| Malposition or kinking | ||||||||
| % | 18.63 | 18.68 | 8.57 | 10.34 | 31.01 | 30.67 | 30.22 | 30.77 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 2.73 | 2.66 | 1.47 | 1.51 | 8.54 | 8.52 | 8.29 | 8.19 |
| Central venous stenosis | ||||||||
| % | 14.71 | 15.38 | 3.81 | 14.94 | 3.8 | 4.91 | 4.32 | 3.85 |
| Times/1000 catheter-days | 0.75 | 0.84 | 0.24 | 0.88 | 0.5 | 0.64 | 0.57 | 0.5 |
| Kt/V | 1.40±0.73 | 1.39±0.19 | 1.38±0.13 | 1.38±0.17 | 1.06±0.07 | 1.05±0.07 | 1.06±0.13 | 1.06±0.08 |
CRBSI, catheter-related bloodstream infection; NTHC, non-tunnel haemodialysis catheter; TVC, tunnelled vascular catheter.