[Experimental and clinical investigations on reapplicability of resterilized intravascular catheters (author's transl)].

Catheters for cardiovascular and other angiographic investigations can be resterilized by ethyl-oxide. The procedure of sterilisation has to be controled permanently. Reapplicability of catheters has become quite common because of the high price of new catheters. In spite of optimal resterilisation and permanent controll some patients still get fever attacks, because endotoxins cannot be eliminated by this method.