After cancellation last year due to the COVID pandemic, we were very pleased to be back in Rome last week for the 2022 ESOT ACADEMIA course. The annual course, organised by ESOT and run in collaboration with the CET, aims to teach professional skills including oral and online presentation, systematic review and meta-analysis and statistics […]
The May 2018 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available online. This month’s studies include the impact of allograft nephrectomy on subsequent transplants, the mid- and long-term risks of living kidney donation, and the use of transcatheter arterial embolisation in patients with APKD prior to transplant.
The March 2018 Transplant Trial watch is now available online and via the CET app. This month’s papers include an evaluation of inclusion/exclusion criteria in transplant clinical trials, self-monitoring of kidney function after transplantation and extended versus modified right lobe grafts for live donor liver transplantation.
Renal transplant recipients and donors are becoming increasingly more marginal, with more expanded criteria (ECD) and donation after circulatory death (DCD) donors and increasingly older recipients with multiple comorbidities. Despite this, high-risk donors and recipients are often excluded from clinical trials, leading to uncertainty about the generalizability of findings. In order to highlight the extent of this […]
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.
The November 2017 Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s papers include a non-inferiority study of low-dose sirolimus combined with tacrolimus in renal tranpslant recipients, a meta-anlysis of remote ischaemic conditioning protocols, and propofol to reduce hepatic ischaemia reperfusion injury.
The September 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now online. This month’s studies include paracalcitol in renal transplant recipients, a new formula for estimation of standard liver volume, and protective mechanical lung ventilation in lung transplantation.
The July 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s papers include a systematic review of factors affecting medication adherence following renal transplant, a trial of Belatacept versus tacrolimus in renal transplant recipients and a systematic review of transplant tourism.