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World J Transplant. Apr 24, 2017; 7(2): 129-133
Published online Apr 24, 2017. doi: 10.5500/wjt.v7.i2.129
Smoking in Renal Transplantation; Facts Beyond Myth
Ahmed Aref, Ajay Sharma, Ahmed Halawa
Ahmed Aref, Department of Nephrology, Sur hospital, Sur 411, Sultanate of Oman
Ahmed Aref, Ajay Sharma, Ahmed Halawa, Faculty of Health and Science, Institute of Learning and Teaching, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, United Kingdom
Ajay Sharma, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool L7 8XP, United Kingdom
Ahmed Halawa, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S5 7AU, United Kingdom
Author contributions: Aref A contributes by designing the work, data collection, writing the manuscript; Sharma A reviewed and edited the manuscript; Halawa A contributes by choosing the topic of our work, reviewing and final editing of the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There is no conflict of interest associated with any of the senior author or other co-authors contributed their efforts in this manuscript.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Ahmed Halawa, Consultant Transplant Surgeon, Sheffield Teaching Hospital, University of Sheffield, Herries Road, Sheffield S5 7AU, United Kingdom. ahmed.halawa@sth.nhs.uk
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Received: September 30, 2016
Peer-review started: October 10, 2016
First decision: December 1, 2016
Revised: December 18, 2016
Accepted: February 28, 2017
Article in press: March 2, 2017
Published online: April 24, 2017
Core Tip

Core tip: There are several studies addressing the effect of smoking on different body systems, yet, there are only few exploring the effect of smoking on the outcome of renal transplantation. Our present article summarizes all the available data published over the past 2 decades for better understanding of this topic and may also guide future studies.