The October 2013 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on transplantevidence.com and via our app for iPhone, iPad and Android. This month, there are a number of interesting trials including failed attempts at inducing tolerance with donor stem cell infusions and an interesting protocol for a study looking at BK virus prophylaxis […]
This interesting cohort study has just been published in BMJ Open and suggests that the recipients of DCD livers after risk adjustment have twice the risk of graft loss and death within 3 years of transplantation than recipients of livers from DBD donors. However there is a considerable difference in outcomes between the seven UK transplant […]
Masanori Niimi, Teikyo University, Tokyo and his colleagues have been awarded the 2013 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work showing that cardiac allografts in mice survived very much longer if the mice were exposed to La Traviata for 7 days after transplantation. Grafts survived for 26.5 days whereas in the control group the […]
This ESOT course provides a podium for young hepatologists, who are specialising in clinical liver transplantation, to discuss new and current topics in the management of complications of acute and chronic liver disease, in the selection of candidates to liver transplantation and in the management of clinical complications and long-term outcomes of liver transplantation. Established and […]