Vascular stenosis in CF patients with totally implantable vascular access devices

Applying Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices (TIVAD) in Children: the First Iranian Experience

Follow-up of 452 totally implantable vascular devices in cystic fibrosis patients.

The use and complications of totally implantable vascular access devices (TIVADs) were examined during multiple courses of antibiotics in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. This retrospective study involved 36 CF centres. Risk factors for removal and septicaemia were sought by survival analysis of censored data. Multivariate Cox models were constructed with removal or septicaemia as the event and t...

Insertion of Totally Implantable Central Venous Access Devices by Surgeons

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate the results for the insertion of totally implantable central venous access devices (TICVADs) by surgeons. METHODS Total 397 patients, in whom TICVADs had been inserted for intravenous chemotherapy between September 2008 and June 2014, were pooled. This procedure was performed under local anesthesia in an operation room. The insertion site for the T...

applying totally implantable venous access devices (tivad) in children: the first iranian experience

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Usefulness of Percutaneous Puncture in Insertion of Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices in Pediatric Patients

PURPOSE Totally implantable venous access devices (TIVADs) are commonly used in pediatrics for the administration of chemotherapy, antibiotics, or parenteral nutrition. TIVADs can be implanted using various techniques, including surgical cutdown (SC) and percutaneous puncture (PP). Recently, percutaneous TIVAD became popular in adults, but studies comparing between PP and SC group in pediatric ...