This ESOT course provides a podium for young hepatologists, who are specialising in clinical liver transplantation, to discuss new and current topics in the management of complications of acute and chronic liver disease, in the selection of candidates to liver transplantation and in the management of clinical complications and long-term outcomes of liver transplantation. Established and […]
I was very amused (and slightly horrified) by the Cochrane Hepato-Biliary group’s most recent offering regarding surgical resection versus liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma. The 22-page review details elegantly the background to the review, gives an in depth search strategy and description of excluded studies and then concludes: “There are no randomised clinical trials comparing […]
The April 2013 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website. Each month, CET staff select 10 important RCTs in the field of transplantation, summarise the findings and assess trial quality. This month, trials include vildagliptin and pioglitazone for post-transplant glucose intolerance, sirolimus in transplant patients with squamous cell carcinoma […]
This article is a single centre review from the National Liver Cancer Centre in Korea of their experience of living donor right hepatectomy between 2005 and 2011 and includes 300 consecutive living donors. The authors examine the data in three cohorts of 100 donors. The overall complication rate was 16% and there were no deaths. […]
The February 2013 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website, and via our app for Android and iPhone. Each month the CET staff identify 10 new trials in the field of transplantation to summarise and assess the quality. This month, the trial watch includes trials of early versus late […]
Happy New Year to all of our readers! The January 2013 edition of the Transplant Trial is now available, with 10 recently published trials in the field of solid organ transplantation selected and appraised for quality. This month, there are results of pre-transplant antiviral therapy in liver transplantation, intensive insulin therapy in diabetic renal transplant […]
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 […]
The October edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website. Each month, our team summarise and assess the quality of 10 important randomised controlled trials in the field of solid organ transplantation. This month, trials include sirolimus in the prevention of skin cancer in transplant recipients, machine perfusion in extended […]
King’s College London are running a two day course for scientists and clinicians interested in translational transplantation biology with a focus on cell therapy to modulate the immune system and state of the art in liver transplantation. The course is suitable for medical and surgical trainees, transplant physicians or surgeons, allied health professionals and scientists […]