A new national survey has opened, giving patients, their carers and the healthcare professionals looking after them an opportunity to submit questions about kidney transplantation and living donation that they think should be addressed in future research. The survey is open to all healthcare professionals caring for people who have had a kidney transplant, are […]
After a 1 month break for the World Transplant Congress, the September 2014 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website and via our mobile app. This month, studies include an interesting analysis of the relationship between uric acid levels and CAN from the ABCAN trial, de novo Belatacept in […]
Dr Richard Perez presented a fascinating abstract on the use of of neonatal donor kidneys. The mean donor age was 20 days and 70% of kidneys came from DCD donors. Twenty recipients with a mean weight of 54 kg received infant kidneys. There has been no deaths but 4 early graft failures. The surgical complications […]
The May 2014 edition of the transplant trial watch is now available on the CET site, as well as our mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. This month, studies include a systematic review of hypothermic machine preservation in renal transplantation, metallic stents for biliary strictures following liver transplantation and tablet computer-based patient education.
An increased incidence of deep vein thrombosis in kidney transplant recipients was first reported from Oxford by Richard Allen in 1987.This is confirmed in a single centre study from Montreal over an 11 year period, where they used a nested case control study comparing patients with and without thromboembolism. Amongst 930 kidney transplant recipients there […]
The February 2014 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on the CET website, and on our apps for iPhone, iPad and Android. This month, new trials include the use of octreotide in liver transplantation, B-cell induction therapy in high-risk kidney transplant recipients and conversion from tacrolimus to sirolimus in renal transplantation.
My co-editor (Stuart Knechtle) and I are delighted to announce that the 7th edition of this textbook has appeared. This edition is accompanied by access to an electronic edition which is a first for this book and has all relevant illustrations in colour together with a number of video clips. I published the first edition in 1978 […]
A recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine from a group in the Netherlands led by the late Yves Vanrenterghem has reported a very careful investigation of the intrarenal Resistive Index in renal allografts using Doppler ultrasonography. The resistive index was measured at baseline and at regular intervals after transplantation at the time […]
The November 2013 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on our website and via our apps for iOS and Android. This month, trials include CNI to mTOR conversion, low-pressure pneumoperitoneum for laparoscopic donors, and protocol biopsies in low-risk renal transplant recipients.
The October 2013 edition of the Transplant Trial Watch is now available on transplantevidence.com and via our app for iPhone, iPad and Android. This month, there are a number of interesting trials including failed attempts at inducing tolerance with donor stem cell infusions and an interesting protocol for a study looking at BK virus prophylaxis […]