Acute kidney injury after partial nephrectomy: transient or permanent kidney damage?—Impact on long-term renal function

Partial nephrectomy represents the gold standard treatment for cT1 renal masses (1,2). Indeed, several studies demonstrated the superiority of nephron-sparing approach relative to radical approach, with respect to long-term renal function (3,4). Despite the lack of experimental data, multiple observational investigations described important clinical consequences related to such functional benefit. For example, the clinical sequelae of such...