Thymectomy and renal homotransplantation.

  • 1 June 1970
    • journal article
    • Vol. 6  (6) , 803-14
Abstract
The course of forty-six consecutive patients were studied for 3½–5 years after renal homotransplantation from related and unrelated donors. Transthoracic thymectomy was performed before transplantation in twenty-four cases; the other twenty-two recipients served as controls. A similar spectrum of donor-recipient lymphocyte antigen compatibility was present in both the test and control series.