Lettre à l'éditeur
Résumé : To the Editor: The paper by Dausset et al. (N Engl J Med 290:979–984, 1974) attempts to define the state of the art regarding the relation of HL-A typing and matching and cadaver kidney-graft survival in London and France. Although the paper demonstrates a striking difference between four-antigen-matched allografts and those matched for none or one antigen, the latter group's two-year survival rate is one that may not be representative of other centers. At least three important biases appear possible in this study. First of all, in an era when kidneys are abandoned during severe rejection crises or infection if. . . © 1974, Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.