Expanding indications for sodium fumarate anti-hypoxia infusion solution in kidney cancer surgery: literature review
- Authors: Popov S.V.1,2,3, Dunaev A.V.4, Guseynov R.G.1,3, Sivak K.V.1,5, Lelyavina T.A.1,6, Potapova E.V.4, Vinokurov A.Y.4, Bunenkov N.S.1,6, Shmidt I.O.1, Grushevskiy R.O.1, Malyshev E.A.1, Beshtoev A.H.1
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Affiliations:
- St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital
- S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Ministry of Defense of Russia
- Saint Petersburg Medical and Social Institute
- I.S. Turgenev Orеl State University
- A.A. Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza
- V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre
- Issue: Vol 21, No 2 (2025)
- Pages: 167-179
- Section: REVIEWS
- Published: 06.08.2025
- URL: https://oncourology.abvpress.ru/oncur/article/view/1887
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17650/1726-9776-2025-21-2-167-179
- ID: 1887
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Abstract
This literature review is devoted to the urgent problem of organ-saving surgery for kidney cancer: hypoxic-ischemic changes in the spared renal tissue and possibilities of their prevention through the use of the succinate-forming drug sodium fumarate 15 %.
About the authors
S. V. Popov
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital;S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy, Ministry of Defense of Russia;
Saint Petersburg Medical and Social Institute
Email: info@lucaclinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2767-7153
Sergey Valer’evich Popov
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044;
6 Lebedeva St., Saint Petersburg, 194044;
Lit. A, 72 Kondratievsky Prospekt, Saint Petersburg 195271
A. V. Dunaev
I.S. Turgenev Orеl State University
Email: info@lucaclinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4431-6288
95 Komsomol’skaya St., Orеl 302026
Russian FederationR. G. Guseynov
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital;Saint Petersburg Medical and Social Institute
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9935-0243
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044;
Lit. A, 72 Kondratievsky Prospekt, Saint Petersburg 195271
K. V. Sivak
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital;A.A. Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza
Email: kvsivak@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4064-5033
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044;
15/17 Professora Popova St., Saint Petersburg 197376
T. A. Lelyavina
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital;V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre
Email: tatianalelyavina@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6796-4064
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044;
2 Akkuratova St., Saint Petersburg 197341
E. V. Potapova
I.S. Turgenev Orеl State University
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9227-6308
95 Komsomol’skaya St., Orеl 302026
Russian FederationA. Yu. Vinokurov
I.S. Turgenev Orеl State University
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8436-1353
95 Komsomol’skaya St., Orеl 302026
Russian FederationN. S. Bunenkov
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital;V.A. Almazov National Medical Research Centre
Email: bunenkov2006@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4331-028X
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044;
2 Akkuratova St., Saint Petersburg 197341
I. O. Shmidt
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0653-6757
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044
R. O. Grushevskiy
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-9032-7729
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044
E. A. Malyshev
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital
Email: info@lucaclinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6294-6182
46 Chugunnaya St., Saint Petersburg 194044
Russian FederationA. H. Beshtoev
St. Luka’s Clinical Hospital
Author for correspondence.
Email: info@lucaclinic.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0004-6436-3860
194044 Санкт-Петербург, ул. Чугунная, 46
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