title: Renal ischemia--reperfusion injury: an inescapable event affecting kidney transplantation outcome.
abstract: Ischemia--reperfusion (I-R) injury has been shown to be a common cause of late and irreversible complications during a variety of standard medical and surgical procedures. The pathogenesis of events which follow the I-R involves both injured endothelium and activated leukocytes and their interaction. In kidney transplantation, an I-R injury occurs in situations such as graft harvesting, cold storage and surgery. Clinical consequences of I-R injury have been considered to be delayed graft function and acute rejection in the short term and chronic rejection late after transplantation. Here we focused on current knowledge of pathophysiology of renal I-R injury in kidney transplantation and on possibilities of experimental therapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Immunology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 140 00 Prague, Czechia.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Böhmová
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Viklický
mesh_terms: D006084:Graft Rejection; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000276:immunology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000503:physiopathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome