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June 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now online

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 2nd June 2017

The June 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s studies include potential for tacrolimus overdosing in obese transplant recipients, chlorthalidone for the management of hypertension in kidney transplant recipients, terlipressin in live donor liver transplantation and desmopressin use in cardiac transplantation.

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April 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now available

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 4th April 2017

The April 2017 Transplant Trial Watch is now available online and via the TTW app for iPhone, iPad and android. This month, studies include a meta-analysis of RAS blockade in renal transplant recipients, early vs. late removal of ureteric stents, and development of a transplant risk index for patients on mechanical circulatory support.

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March 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now online

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 28th February 2017

The March 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s papers include telemedicine for live donor follow-up, ACE inhibitors in renal transplant recipients and cancer screening recommendations following solid organ transplantation.

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February 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now available

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 1st February 2017

The February 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial watch is now available. This month, studies include novel monoclonal antibodies for prevention of CMV viraemia post-transplant, diagnostic markers for acute kidney rejection and chronic kidney injury, and portocaval shunts in liver transplantation.

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January 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now available

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 6th January 2017

The January 2017 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month, trials include risk of infection with RANKL inhibitors, kidney cooling during anastomosis and donor ischaemia preconditioning in liver transplantation.

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December 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now online

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 1st December 2016

The December 2016 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month, articles include a trial of fibrin glue to prevent complications after renal transplantation, a meta-analysis of renal outcomes in live kidney donors and the risk of biliary complications following live donor liver transplantation. It also includes an analysis of the HTA […]

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November 2016 Transplant Trial Watch is now available

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 1st November 2016

The November 2016 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website and via our app for iPhone, iPad and Android. This month, studies include a systematic review of fish oil for kidney transplant recipients, metal vs. plastic stents for benign biliary strictures, and cardiac transplantation after the Norwood procedure.

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October 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now available

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 3rd October 2016

The October 2016 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now online. This month includes a trial of Eculizumab for chronic antibody mediated rejection, a review of the impact of multiple renal arteries in renal transplantation and a trial of antibiotic treatment of ex-vivo perfused lungs.

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The explosion of systematic reviews – have we gone too far?

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 14th September 2016

A fascinating recent paper from Professor John Ioannidis from Stanford University, published in the Milbank Quarterly, has examined the explosion in the publication of systematic reviews and meta-analyses over recent years. Publications between 1991 and 2014 increased by 2,728% for systematic reviews, and 2,635% for meta-analyses – far in excess of the rate of publication […]

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September 2016 Transplant Trial Watch now available

By: Simon Knight | Posted on 5th September 2016

The September 2016 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s studies include include the perils of late CNI withdrawal, CNI to mTORi conversion in Liver Transplant recipients and computer-based home education.

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