Systematic Reviews of Transplantation Procedures

Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of transplantation procedures.

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Title:   Processed versus fresh frozen bone for impaction bone grafting in revision hip arthroplasty
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This summary of a Cochrane review presents what we know from research about the advantages and disadvantages of using fresh frozen bone or processed bone for repairing the hip bone during surgery....
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for children with sickle cell disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder mainly characterized by the presence of deformed, sickle-shaped red blood cells in the blood stream. These cells deprive tissues of blood and oxygen resulting in periodic and recurrent painful attacks. Complicat...
Date:   Nov 2008
Title:   Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for Gaucher disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Gaucher disease is an inherited disorder caused by a deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. This leads to storage of complex lipids in some types of blood cells. Due to these abnormal cells people with Gaucher disease will have pain, fatigue, anem...
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Immunoglobulin prophylaxis in hematological malignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with hematological malignancies are prone to infections due to defects in their immune system. One of the main defects is a reduction in the level of immunoglobulins. For many years, the notion was that administration of pooled immunoglobulins ...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Corticosteroids for preventing graft-versus-host disease after allogeneic myeloablative stem cell transplantation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Some types of blood cancer can be treated by transplanting stem cells from the patient's blood relatives or siblings. Unfortunately, transplanted stem cells (also called the 'graft') can sometimes induce an inflammatory reaction in the patient (or the '...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Ischaemic preconditioning for liver transplantation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Ischaemic preconditioning is a mechanism for reducing organ ischaemia reperfusion injury by a brief period of organ ischaemia, ie, decrease the injury caused by return of blood supply to the organ after a period of decreased or absent blood supply by ex...
Date:   Jun 2008
Title:   Nutrition support for bone marrow transplant patients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bone marrow transplant patients can experience prolonged poor appetite with vomiting and diarrhoea. Malnutrition is a consequence. To prevent this, patients can receive nutritious fluids orally or via a nasogastric tube, or intravenously as parenteral n...
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Methods of preventing bacterial sepsis and wound complications for liver transplantation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Bacterial sepsis and wound complications after liver transplantation increase mortality, morbidity, hospital stay, and overall transplant costs. Various methods have been attempted to decrease the bacterial sepsis and wound complications. A total of sev...
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Antiviral medications for preventing cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant recipients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common virus pathogen in solid organ transplant recipients (kidney, heart, liver, lung and pancreas) being a major cause of morbidity and mortality during the first six months after transplantation. Two main strategies ...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Antiviral therapy for recurrent liver graft infection with hepatitis C virus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antiviral therapy to treat recurrent hepatitis C infection after liver transplantation is controversial. This systematic review of randomised clinical trials was performed to compare the benefits and side effects of different antiviral therapies in pati...
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation in the first line treatment of aggressive Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Aggressive Non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas (NHLs) are fast growing forms of lymphoma. The most common type is a diffuse large B-Cell lymphoma (DLCL) but there are several other subtypes of aggressive lymphoma and variants of DLCL, such as centroblastic, immunob...
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Stem cell treatment for acute myocardial infarction
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Currently the standard treatment for people suffering a heart attack (due to a blockage in the artery supplying blood to the heart) is to directly open the artery with a tiny balloon in a procedure called primary angioplasty. The use of angioplasty and ...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Bone grafts and bone substitutes for treating distal radial fractures in adults
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   A 'broken wrist' (from a fracture at the lower end of the two forearm bones) often results from a fall onto an outstretched hand in older adults and from high-energy trauma, such as a road traffic accident, in young adults. Surgery may be considered for...
Date:   Jun 2007
Title:   High dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation versus conventional chemotherapy for women with metastatic breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Advanced or 'metastatic' breast cancer is cancer that has spread beyond the breast and underarm lymph nodes to other parts of the body. Although metastatic breast cancer is often responsive to conventional chemotherapy it does not provide a cure. The do...
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Immunoglobulins, vaccines or interferon for preventing cytomegalovirus disease in solid organ transplant recipients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common virus causing disease and death in solid organ transplant recipients (kidney, heart, liver, lung and pancreas) during the first six months after transplantation. This review looked at the benefits and harms of Ig...
Date:   Feb 2007
Title:   Fish oil for kidney transplant recipients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review set out to assess any benefit or harm in using fish oil to reduce the risk of kidney damage and heart disease in people who have had a kidney transplant and are receiving standard drugs to prevent rejection. Information from 16 studies was u...
Date:   Jan 2007
Title:   High dose chemotherapy and autologous bone marrow or stem cell transplantation versus conventional chemotherapy for women with early poor prognosis breast cancer
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   There is no evidence to show that women with early poor-prognosis breast cancer live longer if they undergo high-dose chemotherapy with stem cell transplantation. Women with breast cancer who have multiple positive lymph nodes when first diagnosed are a...
Date:   Sep 2006
Title:   Antifungal agents for preventing fungal infections in solid organ transplant recipients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Invasive fungal infections - infections of the bloodstream and organs within the body (e.g. meningitis, pneumonia, peritonitis) - are important causes of morbidity and mortality in liver, pancreas, heart, kidney and lung (i.e. solid organ) transplant re...
Date:   Nov 2005
Title:   Tacrolimus versus cyclosporin as primary immunosuppression for kidney transplant recipients
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Kidney transplantation is the treatment of choice for most patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Strategies to increase donor organ availability and to prolong the transplanted kidney's survival have become priorities in kidney transplantation. ...
Date:   Aug 2005
Title:   Prophylactic platelet transfusion for haemorrhage after chemotherapy and stem cell transplantation
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   This review was undertaken to determine the best use of platelet transfusion for the prevention of bleeding (prophylactic platelet transfusion) in patients who have haematological malignancies and are receiving intensive chemotherapy or stem cell transp...
Date:   Jul 2004
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