Effects of prolonged warm and cold ischemia in a solitary kidney animal model after partial nephrectomy: an ultrastructural investigation.

Ischemia-reperfusion injury can be detrimental to the solitary kidney, especially when it is accompanied by ablation. To the authors' knowledge, the effects of partial nephrectomy with prolonged application of ischemia have never been described at the ultrastructural level. Therefore, the authors used an animal model and focused on putative structural effects in the glomerular basement membrane and the podocytes.