1. The DESCARTES-Nantes survey of kidney transplant recipients displaying clinical operational tolerance identifies 35 new tolerant patients and 34 almost tolerant patients
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Maggiore, Umberto, Yussim, Alexander, Garnier, Arnaud, Gross, Oliver, Prokopova, Michaela, Le Monies De Sagazan, Hervé, Pascual, Julio, Gentil Govantes, Miguel Angel, Biancone, Luigi, Lai, Quirino, Abramowicz, Daniel, La Manna, Gaetano, Tuglular, Serhan, Bemelman, Frederike, Naesens, Maarten, Gaasbeek, André, Gatault, Philippe, Martin, Séverine, Frasca, Giovanni Maria, Colak, Hulya, Stratta, Piero, Seyahi, Nurhan, Keller, Frieder, Sulowicz, Wladyslaw, De Biase, Consuelo, Viklicky, Ondrej, Dudley, Christopher, Subra, Jean-François, Thaiss, Friedrich, Huynh-Do, Uyen, Sever, Mehmet Sukru, Hadaya, Karine, Noël, Christian, Racapé, Judith, Villemain, Florence, Guérif, Pierrick, Cantarell, Maria Carmen, Hurault De Ligny, Bruno, Berglund, David, Pérez-Sáez, María José, Kandus, Aljosa, Ponikvar, Jadranka Buturovic, Massart, Annick, Janbon, Bénédicte, De Fijter, Johan W, Howse, Matthew, Abramowicz, Marc, Glowacki, François, Klinger, Marian, Wekerle, Thomas, Mühlfeld, Anja, Braun, Laura, Pisani, Francesco, Díaz-Corte, Carmen, Legendre, Christophe, Chesneau, Mélanie, Jiménez Del Cerro, Luis Antonio, Clemente, Katia, Budde, Klemens, Tugmen, Cem, Le Moine, Alain, Spasovski, Goce, Lauzurica, Ricardo, Serón, Daniel, Reischig, Tomas, Hazzan, Marc, Hoitsma, Andries, Courtney, Aisling, Pillebout, Evangeline, Giral, Magali, Pallier, Annaïck, Cuna, Vania, Mazouz, Hakim, Brouard, Sophie, Baas, Marije, Sørensen, Søren Schwartz, Puga, Ana Ramírez, Dufay, Alexandre, Alonso Hernandez, Angel, Soulillo, Jean-Paul, Beňa, Luboslav, Moal, Marie-Christine, Piredda, Gian Benedetto, Oberbauer, Rainer, and Orlando, Giuseppe
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610 Medicine & health ,3. Good health - Abstract
BACKGROUND Kidney recipients maintaining a prolonged allograft survival in the absence of immunosuppressive drugs and without evidence of rejection are supposed to be exceptional. The ERA-EDTA-DESCARTES working group together with Nantes University launched a European-wide survey to identify new patients, describe them and estimate their frequency for the first time. METHODS Seventeen coordinators distributed a questionnaire in 256 transplant centres and 28 countries in order to report as many 'operationally tolerant' patients (TOL; defined as having a serum creatinine