Impact of Embedded PD Catheters on Peritonitis and Mortality

Moncrief and Popovich pioneered a buried PD catheter technique (inexplicably abbreviated as SMAP). In a study, outcomes of 285 consecutive patients who had PD catheters implanted either directly (n=96) or via SMAP (n=189) were analyzed retrospectively. Both the risks of peritonitis and mortality were significantly lower in the SMAP group.