In the December 1st issue of the New England Journal of Medicine are two very interesting reports. The first from Koreth et al (2011; 365:2055-66) has studied the use of low dose interleukin-2 (IL-2) in chronic graft versus host disease following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation for haematologic cancer that was resistant to steroid therapy. […]
There were a number of corporate symposia at the ESOT Congress, which is accepted practice these days at most large meetings. However I did hear a lot of criticism about the biased presentations made at some of these symposia, which I had not heard before! Certainly I went to one sponsored by Astellas which was […]
I have just returned from the ESOT 2011 Congress in Glasgow. It was held in the very large congress centre (SECC) on the banks of the Clyde River in Glasgow. The SECC is a very impressive centre with one building containing the major auditoria and which resembles from the outside a mini edition of the […]
We have recently completed a systematic review of preservation solutions for the static cold storage of kidney allografts (this was presented at the recent ESOT meeting and has been accepted for publication subject to satisfactory revision). We used MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library and the Transplant Library to perform the literature search. Searches combined MeSH […]
For some time now the CET has been producing a summary of ten of the months’ most important trials in transplantation for the European Society of Transplantation (ESOT). We are pleased to announce that this Trial Watch is now available on the CET website. Each month, ten important trials in transplantation are appraised for quality […]
Last week, Liang Liu presented a paper entitled ‘Reporting Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in solid organ transplantation’ at the ESOT congress which was held in Glasgow, UK. Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) can provide Level 1 evidence to guide treatment. Previously, we reviewed RCTs in solid organ transplantation that were published between 2004 and 2006. The […]
We would like to invite ESOT members to come and visit us at the ESOT congress in Glasgow from Sunday 4th September to Wednesday 6th September. We will have a stand in the ESOT Village in the SECC where you can come and chat to us and learn more about what we do and how […]
Here at the CET we have created a new guide to searching the Transplant Library. The guide is in PDF format, and can be downloaded here. If you are not familiar, the library is a joint project between the CET and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins/Ovid (Wolters Kluwer Health). The aim of the library is to […]