August 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now available
The August 2016 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s edition includes systematic reviews of pre-emptive renal transplantation and management of ureteric strictures, along with trials of prostaglandin E1 in liver transplant recipients and C1 esterase inhibition in renal transplantation.
June 2016 Transplant Trial Watch is now online
The June 2016 Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month, the trial watch includes systematic reviews of quality of life reporting in renal transplant trials and extended criteria donors, as well as an analysis of wound complications with everolimus following cardiac transplantation.
May 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now available
The May 2016 Transplant Trial Watch is now available online and via our app for iPhone, iPad and Android. This months new trials include long-term follow-up from the Spare the Nephron trial, methods for promoting organ donation and mobile medical apps for encouraging sun protection behaviour.
March 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now available
The March edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available via our website and the Trial Watch App. This month’s trials include the effect of Omega-3 on hepatic regeneration after live liver donation, prophylactic azithromycin after lung transplantation, and the consequences of complete tacrolimus withdrawal in renal transplant recipients.
SONG-TX – developing a core outcome set for renal transplantation
Many clinical trials have been conducted in kidney transplantation but a wide variety of different outcomes are reported and in different ways, and it is unclear whether they are important to people who have received a kidney transplant. There has been no agreement about what are the most important outcomes to measure and report in […]
Top Ten Priorities in Kidney Transplant research from the Kidney Transplant PSP
On the 3rd February 2016, a group of 20 kidney transplant recipients, donors and professionals took part in a consensus workshop at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in London. The group considered the top 25 ranked treatment uncertainties from the PSP prioritisation survey, and after much lively debate agreed a top ten list […]
Placebo controls in surgical trials
There is an excellent article in this month’s Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England about the use of placebo surgery in clinical trials of surgical interventions. The article discusses many of the practical and ethical issues around the use of placebo procedures, including when they should and should not be considered. Interestingly, […]
February 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now online
The February 2016 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s ten new trials include a comparison of parathyroidectomy and cinacalcet for management of post-transplant hyperparathyroidism, heamoxygenase-1 upregulation in renal transplant recipients and sirolimus for liver transplant recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma.