As any regular reader of peer-reviewed journals will know, the most important section of any paper is the description of methods. Without the information in the methods section it is almost impossible to interpret the results of a paper and determine whether the author’s conclusions are justified. Indeed, it is often justifiable to bin a […]
There is an interesting editorial in this month’s Transplantation discussing the exclusion of elderly patients from clinical trials. Such practice clearly has an impact on the generalisability of the results of trials to an increasingly ageing transplant population (the proportion of US kidney transplant recipients aged 65 or over doubled from 7% to 16% between […]
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 […]
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the use of tuberculosis prophylaxis in renal transplant recipients, led by research fellow Andy Currie has been published in Transplantation. The full article can be found on the Transplantation website.