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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 10.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 1964 Sep;61:470–497. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-61-3-470

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Course of Patient LD 6, who received a homograft from his younger brother on April 17, 1963. Both were O blood type. Thymectomy was carried out 26 days before transplantation. Splenectomy and right nephrectomy were performed at the same time as homotransplantation; the left kidney was removed 1 week later. A rejection crisis that occurred 18 days postoperatively was reversed with prednisone and actinomycin C. Steroids were discontinued after 5 months. The patient has normal renal function in June, 1964.