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Second Cadaver Kidney Transplants: Improved Graft Survival in Secondary Kidney Transplants Using Cyclosporin A

J. Thomas Rosenthal, T.R. Hakala, Thomas E. Starzl, Shunzaburo Iwatsuki, B. W. Shaw

Abstract

A total of 42 patients who had failed prior renal transplantation underwent repeat cadaveric transplantation using cyclosporin A and low dose steroid immunosuppression. Patient survival at 1 year was 100 per cent. Over-all graft survival was 83 per cent at 1 year, which was significantly better than had been obtainable previously in this high risk group. Repeat cadaver transplantation with cyclosporin A is safe and offers those who have failed previous transplantation an opportunity for existence free of dialysis.

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Key concepts: Medicine, Immunosuppression, Cadaveric spasm, Transplantation, Surgery, Cadaver, Dialysis, Kidney transplantation