January 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now available
The CET team would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! A new year means that this month’s Transplant Trial Watch is now out. New studies include a systematic review of outcomes in obese kidney transplant recipients, CNI and steroid-free immunosuppression in renal transplantation, and a direct mail campaign to improve donor registration.
Read moreEvidence in Transplantation (EVIT) Course: 8-9 April 2016
Do you want to increase your skills in evidence-based decision-making? Attend the “Evidence in Transplantation (EVIT) course”, which is held at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 8-9 April, 2016 and jointly organised by ESOT and the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation. This interactive course covers clinical research methods, including clinical trial design and […]
Read moreDecember 2015 Transplant Trial watch now available
The December 2015 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available online. This month’s trials include the first RCT of robotic donor nephrectomy, Belatacept in Liver Transplantation and tPA for DCD kidney donors. Why not download our app for iPhone, iPad and Android?
Read moreThe Sun Continues to Shine
You will remember perhaps that I wrote a Blog about legislation passed in the USA some months ago such that industry will have to declare what it pays to doctors for lectures, travel, etc. and how much. This has now come into effect and there was an interesting article in the American Journal of Transplantation […]
Read moreHelp us to prioritise the most important questions in kidney transplantation
The Centre for Evidence in Transplantation are currently leading a project to identify and prioritise unanswered research questions in kidney transplantation to help guide future research. The Kidney Transplant Priorities Setting Partnership has identified 45 unanswered questions, submitted by patients, clinicians, donors and carers. We are now trying to prioritise these questions to see which […]
Read moreProfessor Sir Magdi Yacoub awarded Lister Medal on 28th October.
Sir Magdi Yacoub gave the Lister Oration on October 28 at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, after which he was presented by the Acting President, Mr. Steve Cannon, with the Lister Medal. The oration was entitled “The Glory and Threat of Science and Medicine”. The Lister Medal is awarded every three to five […]
Read moreJoin the discussion: recipient obesity and outcome after renal transplantation
Two recent systematic reviews were published on this important topic. The review by Lafranca and colleagues entitled “Body mass index and outcome in renal transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis”(BMC Medicine 2015;13(1):111) included 56 studies. The authors concluded that “Several of the pooled outcome measurements show significant benefits for ‘low’ BMI (30 preferably should […]
Read moreNovember 2015 Transplant Trial Watch now online
The November 2015 edition of the transplant trial watch is now available on the CET website and via our app for iPhone, iPad and Android.
Read moreJubilee celebration of first kidney transplant in NSW, Australia.
In August of 2015 I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at the 50th Anniversary of Kidney Transplantation in New South Wales, Australia. This first kidney transplant operation was performed 50 years ago at Prince Henry Hospital by a team led by Professor Joe Murnaghan (a urologist) and Dr Doug Tracy (a vascular […]
Read moreTime of extraction of deceased donor kidneys influences DGF
In a very interesting study with a novel observation, which is in press in the AJT, the authors present an analysis of the impact of the extraction time of kidney (the time from beginning of surgery with aortic cross clamping and perfusion/cooling of the kidneys to removal of kidneys and placing them in ice on the back table). […]
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