Ionizing radiation exposure among kidney transplant recipients due to medical imaging during the pretransplant evaluation

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 833-839

  Nguyen, Kim N ^a   Patel, Anup M ^a   Weng, Francis L ^a,b  

^a SAINT BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW JERSEY; ODDS RATIO; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877681618     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03990412     Document Type: Article

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