Tuberculin Testing of Kidney Allograft Recipients and Donors Before Transplantation

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1982-1984

  Khosroshahi, H T ^a   Shoja, E A ^a   Beiglu, L G ^a   Hassan, A P ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; TUBERCULIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION RISK; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SKIN INDURATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TUBERCULIN TEST;

EID: 33846043521     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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