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K C Cochrum

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PubMed1977

HLA typing and primary cadaver graft survival.

Analysis of 463 consecutive primary cadaver renal transplants showed no influence of HLA match grade on renal allograft survival. Additional categorization according to HLA match grade and degree of presensitization again showed no correlation between match grade and graft survival. Mismatches and matches of specific antigens, cross-reacting groups of antigens, and effect of matching at both locus A and B were also evaluated. There was no significant effect on graft survival except when mismatches against donor A2 and cross-reacting group A2, A28 occurred. A trend toward better graft survival was suggested in recipients matched for A9 and cross-reacting group A9, Aw 23, Aw 24. Although HLA match grade did not influence ultimate graft survival, HLA typing remains important, especially to avoid mismatch against donor A2 antigen. In addition, subsequent detection of new specificities, particularly in other than the A and B loci, may provide significance in the future.

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PubMed1976

Improved patient survival in renal transplantation.

Patient and graft survival in 655 consecutive renal transplants performed at the University of California, San Francisco, was analyzed in two separate groups to assess the results of the low-dose immunosuppressive regimen established in September, 1972. These results show that graft survival is not jeopardized by adopting a policy of low-dose immunosuppressive therapy, but, in fact, that patient survival is improved significantly. This study also shows that cadaver renal transplantation can be performed with a mortality rate comparable to or better than that in patients on chronic hemodialysis.

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PubMed1974

Correlation between MLC stimulation and graft survival in living related and cadaver transplants.

"Multiple MLC's" (parallel tests in recipient, donor and globulin-poor plasma) were performed in 211 consecutive transplant donor-recipient pairs(2) The two-way MLC's were performed on patients' lymphocytes before immunosuppression. All grafts regarded as "successful" were at risk for at least six months. Patients with a low MLC (Stimulation Index less than 8 times controls) usually had successful grafts (graft survival was 83% in related transplants and 76% in cadaver transplants). Patients with high MLC's had poor graft survival (0% graft survival in related transplants and 32% in cadaver transplants). An adjusted graft survival was calculated to exclude patients who died with normal renal function (serum creatinine less than 2 mg%). The adjusted graft survival was 91% for living related transplants and 88% for cadaver transplants. Falsely low MLC's occurred when the recipient's plasma contained low-titer cytotoxic antibodies. In 15 recipients of cadaver kidneys, the MLC in recipient plasma was significantly lower than MLC's in donor or globulin-poor plasma. Since the MLC when using cadaver donors was necessarily retrospective, the results were not known pre-transplant and all 15 grafts were rejected. In living related pairs, however, we were able to screen for such antibody activity and could avoid humoral presensitization and cellular compatibility.

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PubMed1971

DNA synthesis in mixed cultures of rat leukocytes and allogeneic dissociated skin cells.

A proliferative response (increased DNA synthesis measured by [(3)H]thymidine incorporation; maximum at the fifth day) occurs in mixed cultures of rat peripheral leukocytes and allogeneic dissociated skin cells. This response is allospecific and is greater than that occurring in mixed cultures of corresponding allogeneic leukocytes. This mitogenic property of dissociated skin cells is not shared with other nonlymphoid cell types, for example kidney cells. Cells from four isogenic rat strains have been studied; proliferative responses occurred in the mixed cell cultures only when cell donors differed by alleles at the Ag-B histocompatibility locus.

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