Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine 1 article published in JoVE Medicine A Retrograde Implantation Approach for Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter Placement in Mice Saran Lotfollahzadeh1, Mengwei Zhang1, Marc Arthur Napoleon1, Wenqing Yin1, Josephine Orrick1, Nagla Elzind1, Austin Morrissey1, Isaac E. Sellinger1, Lauren D. Stern1, Mostafa Belghasem2, Jean M. Francis1, Vipul C. Chitalia1,3,4 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.
