17 patients with infectious diseases needed a long-term parenteral antibiotic therapy. Therefore a subcutaneous catheter system (Port-a-Cath) was implanted for intravenous application of the antibiotic drugs. With a total dwelling-time of 952 patient/days no catheter super-infection was observed. Due to postoperative hematoma in an anticoagulated patient one catheter system was not functioning temporarily. One had to be removed on suspicion of a fungous colonization which could not be verified after bacterial examination. Quality of life for all patients was unaltered so that ambulant therapy was possible in almost 20%.
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