From this month the Transplant Library includes invited commentaries by transplantation experts. The commentary includes a clinical impact rating and also indicates whether the trial is considered practice changing. The randomised controlled trial “De novo sirolimus and reduced-dose tacrolimus versus standard-dose tacrolimus after liver transplantation: the 2000-2003 phase II prospective randomized trial” by Asrani and […]
The next Frontiers in Transplantation course at King’s College will be held on the 1st and 2nd September 2014. The 2-day program includes discussion on recent developments in basic transplantation immunology alongside the latest cutting-edge clinical research. If you are interested in attending, you can register at the King’s College website.
Erik Compton, an American golfer, came second in the US Open last week at the age of 34. Why does this warrant a Blog? Well he has had two heart transplants, the first as a child for viral myocarditis at the age of 12 and the second a few years ago in 2007 after suffering a […]
I went to an excellent lecture on PROs by Professor Melanie Calvert from the University of Birmingham as part of the Doll Seminar series today. She talked about the incorporation of PROs in randomised controlled trials but the quality of the reporting which was quite dismal. Many analyses that she and her group have done […]