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## Background There are no large studies that have examined ultra-short break-in period with a blind, bedside, midline approach to Tenckhoff catheter insertion. ## Methods Observational cohort study of 245 consecutive adult patients who underwent percutaneous catheter insertion for chronic peritoneal dialysis (PD) at our center from January 2009 to December 2013. There were 132 (53.9%) diabetics and 113 (46.1%) non-diabetics in the cohort. ## Results The mean break-in period for the percutaneous group was 2.68 ± 2.6 days. There were significantly more males among the diabetics (103 [78%] vs 66 [58.4%], p = 0.001). Diabetics had a significantly higher body mass index (BMI) (23.9 ± 3.7 kg/m^2^ vs 22.2 ± 4 kg/m^2^, p < 0.001) and lower serum albumin (33.1 ± 6.3 g/L vs 37 ± 6 g/L, p < 0.001) compared with non-diabetics. Poor catheter outflow was present in 6 (4.5%) diabetics and 16 (14.2%) non-diabetics ( p = 0.009). Catheter migration was also significantly more common in the non-diabetic group (11 [9.7%] vs 2 [1.5%], p = 0.004). Primary catheter non-function was present in 17(15%) of the non-diabetics and in 7(5.3%) of the diabetics ( p = 0.01). There were no mortality or major non-p

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Author

Ninoo George; Suceena Alexander; Vinoi George David; Gopal Basu; Anjali Mohapatra; Anna T. Valson; Shibu Jacob; Harish K. Pathak; Antony Devasia; Veerasamy Tamilarasi; Santosh Varughese

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2016

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)