COLLABORATIVE TRANSPLANT STUDY

With the active support of more than 400 transplant centers in 42 countries, the CTS is one of the largest international voluntary studies in the field of medicine. Data sets to more than 800,000 for kidney, heart, lung, liver, and pancreas transplants have been collected. This wealth of data has provided invaluable insights into transplantation-related problems... The study's aims are strictly scientific. The philosophy behind it is that the knowledge-gaining process can be accelerated by combining the experience of many, especially with respect to complex interactions of factors and the analysis of rare events. Aside from maintaining a transplant registry, the CTS conducts various prospective and retrospective studies on particular research topics.

Also known as: Collaborative Transplant Study (CTS)

Primary location: Heidelberg Germany