What Is New?Â
Our study suggested that the significant predictive factor for renal
preservation is the volume of the preserved parenchyma and the radical
nephrectomy is the worse predictive factor. However, our study also
showed that the dialysis rate, which impairs patients’ quality of life,
was similar between the two groups in the long-term follow-up. Our study
also demonstrated that the age, gender, and presence of comorbidities,
including coronary artery disease, diabetes, and hypertension, had no
adverse impacts on the changes in the eGFR. Another important finding of
our study is that the parenchymal quality is another critical factor for
GFR change. Our study showed that GFR change was more significant in
patients who had any level of kidney disease (preoperative GFR below 90
ml/min/1.73 m2).