The ultimate treatment of chronic kidney disease is renal transplant. Patients with CKD who need temporary haemodialysis have to have indwelling catheters. The catheters used are either temporary or permacath (A permacath is a piece of plastic tubing very similar to jugular catheter used for haemodialysis). The issues with these catheters are stenosis of central vein especially subclavian. Cent...

An ill woman with history of lymphoma and heart failure presented with back pain and was referred for a bone scan. Presence of the diffuse superficial phlebitis made the superficial venipunctures difficult and therefore the radiotracer [740 MBq Tc-MDP] was injected via the indwelling central venous catheter inserted in the right subclavian vein. Three hours later, static imaging (fig. 1) reveal...

Agrobacterium radiobacter, a Gram-negative bacillus, is recognized as an emerging opportunistic human pathogen that has a propensity to cause infections in patients with indwelling foreign devices. Here, we describe the first reported case of catheter-related bacteremia caused by A. radiobacter in a hemodialysis patient with a long-term tunneled-cuffed hemodialysis catheter. This case shows tha...

Long-term use of indwelling medical catheters has often been hindered by catheter-associated nosocomial infections. In this study the effectiveness of silver coating of polystyrene and polyethylene polymers was investigated. Polymer pieces of 2 cm2 each were coated with a thin layer of silver using electroless plating technique. Silver-coated polymers were challenged with cultures of four diffe...