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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Immunol. 2018 Jan 9;79(5):266–271. doi: 10.1016/j.humimm.2018.01.002

Table 3.

Differences in the major tolerance strategies in clinical kidney transplantation

Program Conditioning Regimen Timing of Conditioning Regimen Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Chimerism Goal
Massachusetts General Hospital 1998- Chemotherapy + thymic irradiation Pre-kidney transplant Unselected Transient mixed
Stanford 2000- rATG + total lymphoid irradiation Post-kidney transplant Selected Mixed
Northwestern 2009- Chemotherapy + total body irradiation Pre-kidney transplant Selected + “facilitator” cell Complete