Dialysis Catheter Placement in Patients With Thoracic Central Venous Occlusion

Medical University of Vienna

Status: Completed

Conditions: Central Venous Catheter Thrombosis

Treatments: Procedure: access technique including Sharp recanalization; Procedure: inside-out-access technique with inside-out access device (Surfacer (R))

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03766828

Vienna-DialysisAccess

Details and patient eligibility

About

A unique inside-out-access technique with a new CE certified device (Surfacer (R) Bluegrass Vascular, San Antonio, Tx, USA) enables repetitive and confident right-sided placement of central venous catheters in hemodialysis patients with thoracic central venous occlusion.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with thoracic central venous occlusion

Exclusion criteria

• pregnancy

Trial design

36 participants in 2 patient groups

inside-out-access technique with inside-out access device

Treatment:

Procedure: inside-out-access technique with inside-out access device (Surfacer (R))

access technique including Sharp recanalization

Treatment:

Procedure: access technique including Sharp recanalization