The Efficacy of Prophylactic Antibiotics Administration prior to Insertion of Tunneled Catheter in Hemodialysis Patients

Figures & data

Table 1.  Demographic data of the patients.

	Prophylaxis group	Control group
Age (year)	51.23 ± 6.8	50.32 ± 4.6
Male/female (n)	14/16	15/15
Hemodialysis vintage (months)	43 ± 3.6	39 ± 2.4
Etiology of renal disease (n)
Hypertension	9	10
Diabetes mellitus	10	9
Glomerulonephritis	5	4
Amyloidosis	2	2
Unknown	4	5
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	10.8 ± 0.8	10.9 ± 0.5
CRP (mg/L)	0.9 ± 0.3	0.8 ± 0.4
Albumin (g/dL)	3.7 ± 0.4	3.8 ± 0.5

Table 2.  The evaluation of the patients in terms of tunneled catheter-related infection.

	Prophylaxis group	Control group	p-Value
Catheter loss due to infection (n)	3	6
Tunnel infection (n)	2	5
Exit-site infection (n)	4	6
Bacteremia (n)	6	10

Note: *p < 0.05.