• 1. Key Laboratory of Transplant Engineering and Immunology, Ministry of Health, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;2. Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
LI Youping, Email: yzmylab@hotmail.com
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Objective  To collect and analyze published experimental and clinical studies about the protective function of ischemic preconditioning (IPC) to organs, in order to learn the history of IPC, the progress of experimental as well as clinical studies, and explore the mechanism of IPC in organ transplantation.
Methods  The electronic search of MEDLINE (1966 to Aug. 2009), EMbase (1974 to Aug. 2009) and The Cochrane Library (Issue 2, 2009) were performed to include and exclude the retrieved articles by two reviewers independently. The included studies were further treated for analysis and discriptive review.
Results  A total of 1 398 papers were included, of which about 75 percent were experimental studies, and only about 25 percent were clinical studies. About 73 percent studies focused on the heart and liver. Althrough the studies about the effects induced by IPC on the heart, brain, spinal cord and liver increased obviously in recent years, the clinical studies concerned the heart and liver operation and transplantation still far lagged behind experimental studies, especially very few clinical studies on the effect induced by IPC on kidney, lung, gastrointestinal tract and pancreas.
Conclusion  IPC intervention can effectively protect the heart and lung from the I/RI during the surgical and transplatational operations, and the hepat-surgical and living liver transplantational operations. IPC can effectively protect the brain and spinal cord from I/RI, but no protective function to cadaveric liver transplantation. However, the IPC effects on the kidney and gastrointestinal tract are not confirmed and neither is the mechanism of the effect induced by IPC.

Citation: ZHEN Zipeng,HUANG Yuchuan,LI Youping. A Literature Review for the Protective Function of Ischemic Preconditioning to Organs. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2010, 10(2): 203-214. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20100386 Copy

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