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Sixty-four patients were treated, from November, 1962 to March, 1964, with renal homografts from living volunteer donors. After one year, 37 patients were still alive. There have been three subsequent deaths after 13½, 22 and 23½ months. The fatalities were due to a combination of reduced renal function and multiple extra-renal complications. The other 34 patients are still alive, now 22½ to 39 months postoperatively. The outlook, after homotransplantation of kidneys from related donors, remains favorable. Thirty of the original 46 patients are still alive; only one death has occurred after seven months. Moreover, the 30 survivors have all had stable renal function for the past year or longer. Both early and late results have been poor with nonrelated donor-recipient combinations. Only six of 18 such recipients lived for one year. Two have subsequently died during the second postoperative year, and two of the remaining four have had substantial declines in renal function during the latter interval. |
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