Table 2.

Clinical course of patients with positive crossmatch

Patient number	Patient survival (months)	Organ survival (months)		Cause of organ loss		Cause of patient loss
		Liver	Kidney	Liver	Kidney
4	>78	>78	>78	–	–	Still alive
6	4	4	4	Death, no rejection	Death, no rejection	Pneumocysus carinii
7	>48	>48	0	–	Humoral and cellular rejection	Still alive
11	0.9	0.9	0.9	Death, no rejection	Death, no rejection	Pre-existing sepsis, CMV
22	3	2	2a	Ischaemic injury	Humoral and cellular rejection	Retransplantation, wound sepsis
28	0.6	0.6	0.5	Death, no rejection	Drug toxicity	Pre-existing sepsis, CMV

^aKidney never functioned, was removed at liver retransplantation.

CMV, cytomegalovirus.