Somehow or other I missed this very thoughtful editorial on the above subject which appeared in Lancet early in 2011, but better late than never! The editorial was stimulated by an announcement by the Minister of Health in the new Philippine government stating the ban on foreigners receiving transplants from Filipinos was to lifted and […]
In the latest CTS newsletter (November 1 2012) there is a very interesting analysis of the age of both donors and recipients over the last 25 years. This shows that the age of donors is steadily increasing with 31% of donors being greater than 60 years of age and 27% between 50 and 59 years […]
The December 2012 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website. Each month, the CET staff select 10 important recent RCTs in the field of transplantation and summarise and appraise their quality. This month, trials include alternative procedures for living donor nephrectomy, Rapamycin in simultaneous kidney pancreas transplants and Everolimus […]
This very interesting study is in publication in Transplantation. It is an analysis of deceased donor kidney graft survival in Europe and the USA based on CTS data and UNOS data comparing overall and age specific 1, 5 and 10 year graft survival for Europeans and white, African and Hispanic Americans over a 3 year […]
The November 2012 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now online. Each month the CET staff pick ten recent randomised controlled trials or systematic reviews to appraise the quality and comment on the findings. This month, trials include Rituximab as induction therapy in renal transplantation, Ephinenphrine for preventing postreperfision syndrome following liver transplantation and […]
You can now register for the EVIT course which will be held on 22nd and 23rd February 2013. The EVIT course, organised in collaboration with the European Society of Organ Transplantation, is a two-day course aimed at young professionals actively involved in organ and tissue transplantation who want to increase their skills in evidence-based decision-making. […]
This is a very interesting study in which 500 board certified internists were presented with abstracts that described a clinical trial of three hypothetical drugs. The trials had a high, a medium or a low level of quality and each report had included a disclosure about the source of funding, either from a pharmaceutical company, […]
An interesting and exciting study has recently been published in The Lancet by Warnecke et al describing the use of a portable perfusion unit for lung preservation. The “OCS Lung” (TransMedics, Andover MA) is a mobile and stand-alone unit that can be used to perfuse donor lungs from the start of the preservation period, minimizing cold iscaemic […]
It is a pleasure to announce that Simon Knight, who is an Honorary Consultant to the CET, has been appointed as Deputy Director of the CET. Simon was one of the two original research fellows at the beginning of the CET and is shaping a career in organ transplantation. His extensive grasp of IT technology, […]