Angiography Okay for Kidney Patients (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Surgery  Fri, 10/16/2009 - 06:58

Using coronary angiography to test whether a patient's heart is fit enough to undergo kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, researchers found.


 

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