Neutrolin® and biofilm formation

Figure 1 shows two scanning electron microscope (SEM) photos of the luminal surfaces from two different catheters. The left catheter was removed from the HD patient who had been using a conventional heparin lock for 7 months. The photo on the right of an HD patient using Neutrolin* locked catheter has no evidence of any biofilm after 5 months in vivo.4
Validated Clinical Utility in “EU Real World” Setting – Neutrolin® Usage Monitoring Program (NUMP)
- From January 2014 to November 2015, 19 hemodialysis centers in Germany participated in Neutrolin® Usage Monitoring Program
- 199 HD patients representing 15,122 dialysis sessions over a 22 months period for a total of 35,285 hemodialysis catheter days
- 5 infections and 3 thrombosis events over the 35,285 hemodialysis catheter days
- The primary outcome of our study is to monitor safety and efficacy of Neutrolin® in preventing infection and thrombosis in HD patients
Complication (per 1,000 catheter days) | Historical Benchmark | Neutrolin® | % Reduction in Infection Rate |
Infection Thrombosis |
3.5 2–3 |
0.142 0.085 |
96.0 % 96.6 % |
Positive results are consistent with prior clinical studies
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