TABLE 4.
Incidence of rejection
| Episodes of rejection | Tacrolimus (Group I) |
CsA (Group II) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. patients | % patients | Total episodes |
No. patients | % patients | Total episodes |
|
| 0 | 100 | 42.9 | 0 | 52 | 43.3 | 0 |
| 1 | 73 | 31.3 | 73 | 25 | 20.8 | 25 |
| 2 | 38 | 16.3 | 76 | 14 | 11.7 | 28 |
| 3 | 15 | 6.4 | 45 | 7 | 5.8 | 21 |
| 4 | 2 | 0.8 | 8 | 9 | 7.5 | 31 |
| 5 | 5 | 2.1 | 25 | 13 | 10.8 | 65 |
| Total | 233 | 227 | 120 | 175 | ||
| Mean rejections per patient | 0.97a | 1.5a | ||||
P value = 0.002 (t test)