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In this issue of the Journal, three articles describe several organ-transplant recipients in whom allografts have maintained good function for up to 5 years without immunosuppressive treatment.^1,2,3 In two articles concerning combined kidney and hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, the authors attributed the successful outcome in their patients to the cotransplantation of donor stem cells.^1,2

The third report, by Alexander et al., concerns a young girl who received a completely HLA-mismatched liver from a deceased male donor but did not receive a donor stem-cell infusion.³ The cause of the fulminant hepatic failure with which the patient presented was never firmly established. However, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Montefiore, Pittsburgh.

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