We are conducting an interesting study to investigate attitudes and current practices regarding anonymised clinical trial data sharing among transplant professionals. This study will provide insight regarding the facilitators and barriers of sharing data and help develop better tools and processes for data sharing in the future. Participation in the survey will only take 5 […]
The European Society in Organ Transplantation and the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation have teamed up to create a new course for future leaders in transplantation. Replacing the Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course and European Transplant Fellows Workshop (ETFW), this new course aims to teach: Academic skills – research, critical appraisal, evidence based medicine, systematic […]
Renal transplant recipients and donors are becoming increasingly more marginal, with more expanded criteria (ECD) and donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors and increasingly older recipients with multiple comorbidities. Despite this, high-risk donors and recipients are often excluded from clinical trials, leading to uncertainty about the generalizability of findings. In order to highlight the extent of this […]
In this recent RCT by Kumar et al the use of intra-ductal (trans-anastomotic) stents in live donor liver transplantation increased the risk of biliary leaks (36% versus 12%). The authors found that bile leak was also associated with an increased risk of biliary stricture. The authors speculated that the reason for the increased risk of bile leak […]