The December 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available online. This month’s studies include PDT vs. Imiquimod for the treatment of actinic keratoses in transplant recipients, omitting affective attitude questions to improve intention to become an organ donor, and a meta-analysis of ECMO vs. bypass during lung transplantation.
Soon to start recruiting in the UK, the Pre-Implantation Trial of Histopathology In renal Transplant Allografts (PITHIA) trial blends national collaboration, a unique digital pathology service, registry-based follow-up and a novel stepped-wedge design to assess the impact of a national donor histopathology service on kidney utilisation. The trial is being run by chief investigator Gavin […]
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.
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). […]
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 World Congress in Transplantation, which was a joint meeting between the TTS, the ASTS and the AST took place in San Francisco from the 26th to the 31st of July. It was a huge meeting with some 7,000 people attending which made it quite difficult to meet people. The opening ceremony was rather special […]
This article is a single centre review from the National Liver Cancer Centre in Korea of their experience of living donor right hepatectomy between 2005 and 2011 and includes 300 consecutive living donors. The authors examine the data in three cohorts of 100 donors. The overall complication rate was 16% and there were no deaths. […]
The latest World Health Organization bulletin publishes an interview with Haibo Wang who is the Director of the China Organ Transplant Response System Research Centre for the Ministry of Health, a position he has held since 2011. He is interviewed by Fiona Fleck of the WHO and it is a very interesting interview, particularly with […]