The significance of HLA-A and -B matching for cadaver-kidney survival in Stockholm 1970--1976.
The significance of HLA-matching for the survival of cadaver kidneys, transplanted between January 1970 and June 1976 to 170 uraemic patients has been assessed. When the patients were divided into groups according to degree of HLA compatibility it was found that the groups so obtained were comparable neither with regard to the quality of the transplants nor to the immunosuppressive therapy given. This was due to multiple changes in policy in 1973. When the case material was divided into patients treated before and after 1973, comparable groups were obtained within each series. The only correlation found was that, in the chronologically later groups, 2 year survival rate of transplants with E-G match (3--4 incompatibilities) was inferior to that of transplants with C-D match (1-2 incompatibilities).
D002102:Cadaver; D006085:Graft Survival; D006680:HLA Antigens; D006650:Histocompatibility Testing; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D013548:Sweden; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
D006680:HLA Antigens