Role of ischemic preconditioning in liver transplant: a review of literature.

Exp Clin Transplant

Department of Surgery and Liver Transplantation, University of Pernambuco School of Medicine, Oswaldo Cruz University Hospital, Recife, Brazil.

Published: March 2010

Interruption of blood flow and subsequent organ reperfusion lead to significant tissue damage. This well-studied phenomenon is recognized as ischemia/reperfusion injury. Ischemic preconditioning refers to a mechanism in which a prior, short, ischemic period induces some protection against a subsequent prolonged ischemic and reperfusion damage. The mechanisms involved in ischemic preconditioning and its applications for clinical and basic research are discussed in this paper.

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