This Plain Language Summary of Publication article (PLSP) from Future Microbiology describes a study called LOCK IT-100. The study aimed to find out if the taurolidine/ heparin catheter lock solution can help prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections, which can be serious or deadly, in patients with kidney disease who are receiving hemodialysis.

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Diagram illustrating the human heart and its valves, highlighting the catheter lock solution and it's function.

 

 

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This PLSP is based on an article called ‘aurolidine/Heparin Lock Solution and Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection in Hemodialysis: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Active-Control, Phase 3 Study’ and was published in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

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