Exclusion of pregnancy in dialysis patients: diagnostic performance of human chorionic gonadotropin

Abstract Background A positive pregnancy test in acute or chronically ill patients has implications for the use of potentially mutagenic or teratogenic products in urgent medical therapies such as the use of chemotherapies or therapies with immunosuppressants, for anesthesia, and for time-sensitive...

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Main Authors: Natalja Haninger-Vacariu, Harald Herkner, Matthias Lorenz, Marcus Säemann, Andreas Vychytil, Martin Jansen, Rodrig Marculescu, Reinhard Kramar, Gere Sunder-Plassmann, Alice Schmidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-020-01729-5