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Course of a patient (LD 9) who had 3 separate early rejection crises beginning after 5, 34, and 71 days. Note decline of sodium excretion on each occasion and reversal of pattern with increases of prednisone doses. He died 10 days after emergency operative treatment of a bleeding duodenal ulcer. At autopsy, multiple fungal brain abscesses were also found as well as pneumonia. Total survival was 207 days. This patient had a thymectomy 85 days before homotransplantation.
