This is an interesting long term report of five patients who had bilateral hand allotransplants performed in the Lyon centre some years ago with a follow up ranging from three to 13 years. There were four men and one woman and all were young and the level of amputation was distal in three cases and […]
The Texas Transplantation Society is the first US society to provide access to the Transplant Library database for all its members. The Transplant Library will be introduced by Sir Peter Morris by video and by Mr Mark Schregardus, CEO of Evidentia Publishing during 28th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Texas Transplantation Society, July 23-26, 2015, […]
Although the outcome of kidney transplantation in HIV positive patients who receive organs from HIV negative donors has been reported as being similar to the outcome in HIV negative recipients, this report from South Africa is the first long term follow up of HIV positive patients who receive kidneys from HIV positive deceased donors. Over […]
I was sad to hear that David Sackett died recently at the age of 80. He was arguably the father of evidence based medicine and the first chair of the Cochrane Collaboration steering group in 1993. He was appointed the first Professor of the newly founded Oxford Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in 1994, having come […]
A recent article in the BMJ by Abraha et al, using large amounts of data from RCTs, has shown that deviation from intention-to-treat analysis (ITT) can lead to apparently larger treatment effects. When compared to standard intention-to-treat analysis there was a significant difference in the apparent treatment effect. When a deviation from ITT was compared […]