Abstract
To prevent skin-exit infection, an important CAPD complication, we developed a transcutaneous connector made of Alumina ceramic. An Alumina ceramic is characteristically bio-inert, rigid and non-porous. The shape of the new connector was of simple cylindrical configuration so as to inhibit macrostress beneath the skin. To make contact with this connector in the body, a sillicon tube was made into Swanneck catheter with a disk-shaped dacron cuff at No. 2 position. We are now using this new transcutaneous connector made of Alumina ceramic on a CAPD catheter in 7 patients. There has been virtually no down-growht phenomenon in the skin around the connector, and the connector and tissue have remained in very close contact.
