A Retrograde Implantation Approach for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Placement in MiceSaran Lotfollahzadeh 1, Mengwei Zhang 1, Marc Arthur Napoleon 1, Wenqing Yin 1, Josephine Orrick 1, Nagla Elzind 1, Austin Morrissey 1, Isaac E. Sellinger 1, Lauren D. Stern 1, Mostafa Belghasem 2, Jean M. Francis 1, Vipul C. Chitalia 1,3,4
1Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine, 2Department of Biomedical Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, 3Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, 4Institute of Medical Engineering and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This article describes modifications of a procedure to implant a peritoneal dialysis catheter in a murine model to avoid major technical issues observed with the conventional techniques.
