Which Primary Diagnosis Has the Highest in-Hospital Mortality Rate for Kidney Recipients?

Transplantation Proceedings

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 901-903

  Khedmat, H ^a   Araghizadeh, H ^a   Assari, S ^a   Moghani Lankarani, M ^a   Aghanassir, M ^a  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; GRAFT REJECTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; KIDNEY INFECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEPHROLITHIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IRAN; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 34248506574     PISSN: 00411345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2007.03.076     Document Type: Article

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