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Do patients like abdominal or presternal PD catheters?
The catheter exit location in the chest may be preferred by some patients, both men and women, for psychological or body image reasons.
Indications for presternal PD catheters are?
Swan neck presternal catheters have been implanted in patients for the following reasons: obesity, ostomies, a suprapubic catheter, previous problems with abdominal catheters, desire to use a bathtub, need to use a whirlpool, and body image.
What kind of dialysis is this patient undergoing?
There is presternal peritoneal dialysis catheter, the tip in the abdomen is not seen, however.
There is also an IVC filter.