Renal homotransplantation: 20 to 36 months later.

FRobr November 1962 to March 1964, 64 uremic patients were treated with renal homoirafts obtained lrom living volunteer donors. The surgical m d non-operative techniques used to treat these patients were adapted from the pioneering methods described in thiscountry by Hume,' Murray, Merrill and Harrison.? and Goodwin7--and in Europe by Calne: Kiiss,Wamburger6 and Woodr~ff.~ Thirty-seven, or 58 per cent of these 64 recipients, lived for at least one year (Fig. 1). One died after 13% months of non-renal causes. Two others died of sepsis and recurrent rcnnl lailure a t 22 and 24 months, respectively. The other 3 4 are still alive with continuoas function of thrir homografts for 20 to 36 months. Twenty-one of these patients have already piissed the two-year mark. The one-year ~urvival of patients treated with homografts from blood relatives was 31