[Long-term central venous catheters (ports) in adults cancer patients--one center experience].
The purpose of the study was to present the complications concerning the long-term central catheters (ports) used for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy.


METHODS
From 2000 to 2007, twenty nine patients (25 women and 4 men), mean age 47 years received ports.


RESULTS
In the study group of patients the average time of support with the ports was 439 days. Nine patients (31%) had complications: 5 of them had the infections (local infections), 3 patients had catheter occlusions and 1 of them had local skin necrosis. The central venous catheters were removed in the cases. Ten ports were still used.
Oddziału Onkologii Wojewódzkiego Szpitala Specjalistycznego nr 4 w Bytomiu.
Ewa
E
Nowakowska-Zajdel
Bogusław
B
Bucki
Zofia
Z
Rusinowska
Anna
A
Zmuda-Siedlarczyk
Małgorzata
M
Muc-Wierzgoń
Teresa
T
Kokot
Jerzy
J
Piecuch
Andrzej
A
Brodziak
D000328:Adult; D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D062905:Central Venous Catheters; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms; D012307:Risk Factors