Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 20, Issue 12 , Pages 1578-1581 , December 2009

The Case for Primary Placement of Tunneled Hemodialysis Catheters in Acute Kidney Injury

  • Lee Coryell, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Jason P. Lott, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • S. William Stavropoulos, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Jeffrey I. Mondschein, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Aalpen A. Patel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Andrew Kwak, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Michael C. Soulen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Jeffrey A. Solomon, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Richard D. Shlansky-Goldberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Alexander A. Nemeth, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Sidney Kobrin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Michael Rudnick, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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  • Scott O. Trerotola, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Division of Interventional Radiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1 Silverstein, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to S.O.T.

Received 19 January 2009 ,Revised 13 July 2009 ,Accepted 24 August 2009.

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 From the SIR 2008 Annual Meeting.

 S.O.T. is a paid consultant for MedComp (Harleysville, Pennsylvania), Arrow/Teleflex (Reading, Pennsylvania), and Bard (Tempe, Arizona). None of the other authors have identified a conflict of interest.

PII: S1051-0443(09)00875-6

doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2009.08.014

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Volume 20, Issue 12 , Pages 1578-1581 , December 2009

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