Contribution to the problem of the relationship of infection and rejection in patients with kidney transplants.

The paper deals with the incidence of infectious complications and rejection crises in patients with renal transplants. It was revealed by statistical methods that there exists a certain correlation between infections and rejections, which depends on the type of the infectious agent. In patients where infectious complications were caused only by gram-negative flora an indirect relationship was revealed, while in patients with infectious complications where gram-positive flora, viruses or fungi participated, a marked direct correlation was found. Statistical methods proved also a higher incidence of rejection crises in patients with active cytomegalic infection.