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?
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 […]
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 […]
This is a fascinating study with significant implications for preservation studies. The authors show that organ donors after brain death subjected to mild cooling had significantly less DGF than donors subjected to conventional normothermia before organ retrieval. In fact the DMC stopped the study on the basis that efficacy had been demonstrated before completion of […]
The October 2015 edition of the Transplant Trial watch is now available online and via the Trial Watch app. This month, new studies include long-term outcomes of sirolimus-based immunosuppression in renal transplant recipients, remote ischaemic preconditioning and therapeutic hypothermia in organ donors.
The July edition of the transplant trial watch is now available on our website and via the app for iPhone, iPad and Android. This months trials include computer-guided tacrolimus dosing, radial versus femoral cannulation for cardiac transplantation and Sorafenib in liver transplant candidates with HCC.
This is an interesting long term report of five patients who had bilateral hand allotransplants performed in the Lyon centre some years ago with a follow up ranging from three to 13 years. There were four men and one woman and all were young and the level of amputation was distal in three cases and […]
Although the outcome of kidney transplantation in HIV positive patients who receive organs from HIV negative donors has been reported as being similar to the outcome in HIV negative recipients, this report from South Africa is the first long term follow up of HIV positive patients who receive kidneys from HIV positive deceased donors. Over […]