health-related quality of life in kidney transplant recipients

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mariusz niemczyk department of immunology, transplant medicine and internal diseases, medical university of warsaw, poland; department of immunology, transplant medicine and internal diseases, medical university of warsaw, nowogrodzka, warsaw, poland. tel: +48-225021641, fax: +48-225022127

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