Facebook have recently teamed up with the NHS Organ Donation Campaign to allow Facebook users to register as organ donors through the site. Users will also be able to share their intentions with their family and friends through the site. The move allows NHS Blood and Transplant to reach a new audience through social media, […]
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 […]
Philip Macklin was awarded an MSc in Surgical Sciences jointly from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons in June of this year, with distinction. Working under the supervision of the CET, his dissertation was entitled “A Systematic Review of the Use of Rituximab in Renal Transplantation”. He is now preparing manuscripts […]
As part of the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the Founding of the University of Melbourne Medical School in July 2012, Sir Peter Morris AC, FRS, Emeritus Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford, was awarded a Doctorate of Laws (Honoris Causa), the highest award the University can confer. After the ceremony […]
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. […]
I was greatly impressed with the Transplantation Society Congress in Berlin last month. The venues and organisation were first class. There were also many high level presentations and discussions that have both informed and stimulated interested minds. Given my own interests, a personal highlight was the session on Organ Procurement and Preservation, where much good […]
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 […]