A single randomized, crossover trial involving 12 patients undergoing hemodialysis showed that locking with 2 mg of rt-PA in each catheter lumen was superior to locking with heparin. 15 Our ...

The Export catheter was also used in the larger TAPAS trial. [46] This was a single-center randomized trial ... AngioJet® (MEDRAD, PA, USA) Rheolytic thrombectomy system consisting of a drive ...

The proximal port (D) connects to an additional lumen 30 cm from the catheter tip and is used to monitor right atrial pressures once the catheter tip is in the pulmonary artery. A thermistor wire ...

January 26, 2011 — Substituting recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) for heparin once a week as a locking solution in the central venous catheters ... PA in each lumen instead ...

The Xtract™ aspiration catheter, with its patented, large single lumen design, circular right-angle tip, and curved directional distal segment, delivers fast and powerful clot removal to help re ...

PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study design was a phase III, open-label, single-arm multicenter trial. Subjects with occluded, nondialysis CVCs were enrolled. All subjects received a 2-mg dose of TPA ...