Prolonged Survival of Human-Kidney Homografts by Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy

Abstract

THIS report is a summary of our experience with kidney homografts in 13 patients treated with drugs as the sole modality for the suppression of immunity (Table 1). Five recent cases are reported in detail: 1 patient with a cadaveric kidney is still alive after one year; 1 died from cerebral hemorrhage more than five months after transplantation from an unrelated infant; 1 is alive three months after transplant from his mother; the fourth is alive six weeks after receiving a kidney from his brother; and the fifth is living four weeks after a transplant from an unrelated adult volunteer. . . .