FACTORS WHICH HAVE A SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON THE SURVIVAL OF HUMAN SKIN GRAFTS
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Transplantation
- Vol. 26 (3), 194-198
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00007890-197809000-00014
Abstract
Survival of 436 ABO-compatible skin grafts exchanged in 97 Caucasian families was prolonged if donor and recipient were genotypically, as compared with phenotypically, HLA identical. Among skin grafts between haploidentical family members, a mismatch at the A locus was equivalent to a mismatch at the B locus. Skin grafted from child to mother survived longer than did skin grafted between other family members, other variables being equivalent. A highly significant positive correlation was found between the age of recipient and skin graft survival. A significant interaction was found between the relationship of donor and recipient and degree of antigen match.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit: