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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2020-02-01
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Series: | BMC Nephrology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-020-01729-5 |