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Taurolidine-based lock solutions for hemodialysis catheters: the enthusiasm should be tempered

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Labriola, Laura [UCL] Jadoul, Michel [UCL]

(eng) To the Editor: In a recent single-blind, randomized controlled trial, Winnicki et al.1 showed that the use of taurolidine-based catheter lock solutions (taurolidine-citrate-heparin twice weekly and taurolidine-citrate-urokinase once weekly) significantly reduced the incidence of catheter-related bacteremia (CRB) (incidence risk ratio, 0.25; 95% confidence interval, 0.10–0.73; P = 0.009) and catheter malfunction (P = 0.001 for both reversal of catheter lines and need for thrombolytics) compared with citrate 4%. […]

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Lettre à l'éditeur
Access type Accès libre
Publication date 2018
Language Anglais
Journal information "Kidney International" - Vol. 93, no. 4, p. 1015-1016 (2018)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Elsevier BV ((United States) New York, NY)
issn 0085-2538
e-issn 1523-1755
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSS/IREC/NEFR - Pôle de Néphrologie
UCL - (SLuc) Service de néphrologie
Keywords Nephrology
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Bibliographic reference Labriola, Laura ; Jadoul, Michel. Taurolidine-based lock solutions for hemodialysis catheters: the enthusiasm should be tempered. In: Kidney International, Vol. 93, no. 4, p. 1015-1016 (2018)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/196469