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Welcome to ScanCLAD

ScanCLAD is an investigator initiated, controlled, randomized, open-label, and multi-centre study evaluating if once-daily tacrolimus or twice-daily cyclosporin, reduces the 3-year incidence of Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction after lung transplantation (EudraCT number 2015-004137-27)

The study started in the end of 2016, and is planned to continue through 2022 for follow up of all patients. It is carried out as a collaboration between five University Hospitals in Scandinavia: 

  • Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Skåne University Hospital in Lund, Sweden
  • Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway
  • Helsinki University Hospital in Helsinki, Finland

 

This home page has primarily been set up as a tool for communication between the people involved in conducting this study.

Göran Dellgren

"The ScanCLAD study has the potential to become one of the most important studies on immunosuppression after lung transplantation"

- MD Göran Dellgren, Sponsor of the study and Consultant, PhD, Head of section for thorax transplantation l, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden

Nordic countries

January 2020

The ScanCLAD study has now reached the target of 242 randomised patients.