May 2018 Transplant Trial Watch now available
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.
COPE Normothermic Liver Preservation trial published in Nature
The first of the Consortium for Organ Preservation in Europe (COPE) organ preservation trials has now been published in Nature. The large, European, multicentre trial randomised livers to standard static cold storage, or to normothermic machine preservation using the OrganOx Metra device. The study demonstrated improved early biochemical function, with a reduction in peak ALT […]
April 2018 Transplant Trial Watch now available
The April 2018 Transplant Trial Watch is now available. This month’s studies include a trial of Eculizumab for prevention of ischaemia-reperfusion injury, a systematic review of liver transplantation for alcoholic hepatitis, and a review of the impact of positive preservation fluid cultures.
March 2018 Transplant Trial Watch now available
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.
Survey on clinical trial data sharing practices in transplantation
We are conducting an interesting study to investigate attitudes and current practices regarding anonymised clinical trial data sharing among transplant professionals. This study will provide insight regarding the facilitators and barriers of sharing data and help develop better tools and processes for data sharing in the future. Participation in the survey will only take 5 […]
Do clinical trials reflect reality?
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 […]
December 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now available
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.
November 2017 Transplant Trial Watch now available
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.