This is quite a fascinating study and is a phase 2 randomised double blind study of cellular treatment of venous ulcers. Patients with non healing venous ulcers of the lower leg were treated with either the vehicle (fibrinogen and thrombin) – control group or with 4 different protocols of the vehicle with fibroblast and keratinocyte […]
The September edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website. Each month, the CET staff select 10 recently published randomised controlled trials in the field of transplantation and summarise the findings and quality. This month, the Trial Watch includes a trial of generic tacrolimus, long-term results from the Tricontinental MMF […]
Sylvie Euvrard and her colleagues (New England Journal of Medicine 2012; 367:329) have performed a multicentre randomised trial in patients on a calcineurin inhibitor who had developed at least 1 squamous cell cancer of the skin after renal transplantation. Patients were randomised to either continue on the calcineurin inhibitor or to be converted to sirolimus. […]
The July edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on our website. Each month, the CET staff select and assess the quality of 10 important randomised controlled trials in the transplant literature. This month, trials include improving dontation rates, treating recurrent HCV after liver transplantation, and CNI vs MMF withdrawal in renal transplantation. […]
There was a very interesting report in the Lancet this past week from the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg in Sweden by Michael Olausson and colleagues describing the successful treatment of a ten year old girl with an extrahepatic portal vein obstruction. A 9cm length of an iliac vein from a deceased organ donor was […]
The June edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on our website. Each month, the CET staff select and assess the quality of 10 important randomised controlled trials in the transplant literature. Don’t forget that the Trial Watch is now available as an app for Android and iPhone – Download it now!
The April edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now online. Each month, the CET staff select 10 important randomised trials from the literature to summarise and assess their quality. This month, trials include RCTs investigating the safety and efficacy of Advagraf and Belatacept in renal transplant recipients, and trial looking at steroid pretreatment of […]
We are pleased to announce the release of the new Transplant Trial Watch App for Android and iPhone. The app gives you access to the latest Transplant Trial Watch on your mobile device, with 10 important RCTs in the field of transplantation from the past month. The App also allows you to send trials of […]
The March edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now online. Each month, the CET staff select 10 important randomised trials from the literature to summarise and assess their quality. This month, there are a number of trials looking at immunsuppression monitoring and factors affecting exposure, as well as an interesting trial looking at the […]