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PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System
Equip your patients to manage ascites drainage
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The PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System is the first tunneled catheter* that is indicated for drainage of malignant and non-malignant ascites.
Designed with active vacuum technology to help facilitate the drainage of ascites fluid, the PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System allows your patients to manage fluid from malignant and non-malignant ascites at home.
The PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System was introduced in 2005 for malignant ascites management. In 2020, the PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System received a new, expanded indication for non-malignant ascites. The new, expanded indication will allow you to serve patients who present with ascites that is the direct result of liver disease or other non-malignant origins. With the new, expanded indication, the PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System will be rebranded as the PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System.
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PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System
Indications for Use:
The PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter System is indicated for intermittent, long term drainage of symptomatic, recurrent, malignant and non-malignant ascites that does not respond to medical management of the underlying disease and for the palliation of symptoms related to recurrent ascites. The use of the PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter for non-malignant ascites is limited to patients who are intolerant or resistant to maximum medical therapy, refractory to large volume paracentesis (LVP) and are not candidates for a trans-jugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt or LVP. The PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter is indicated for adults only.
The Lockable Drainage Line is used to drain fluid using standard wall suction, water seal drainage system, vacuum bottle, or other appropriate method.
Warnings:
Do not put anything except the access tip of the Lockable Drainage Line, Catheter Access Kit, or PleurX™ Vacuum Bottles into the catheter valve since any other device could damage the valve. A damaged valve may allow air into the body or let fluid leak out through the valve when not draining.
A diagnostic paracentesis should be performed if the patient shows signs or symptoms of possible spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) such as fever or abdominal pain. If SBP is present, the patient should be treated per institutional guidelines, including systemic antibiotics and repeat diagnostic paracentesis at the end of the antibiotic regimen. For a patient with resolved SBP, the patient should be treated per institutional guidelines, including prophylactic antibiotics to help in the prevention of refractory or recurrent SBP. In the case of refractory or recurrent infections, the catheter should be removed and reinserted at the discretion of the clinician after the SBP has resolved.
Do not place the PeritX™ Peritoneal Catheter into the pleural space as it could lead to misidentification of the catheter and/or mistreatment of the patient.
Please consult product labels and package inserts for indications, contraindications, hazards, warnings, cautions, and information for use.
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