Organ Transplant From SARS-CoV-2-Positive Donors: A Brazilian Experience.

Since March 2022, donors with detectable SARS-CoV-2 RNA have been accepted for extrapulmonary organ transplants in Brazil. In this report, we described 11 successful organ transplants (6 kidney, 5 liver) from 5 asymptomatic infected donors.

Donor Choriocarcinoma Transmission From Solid Organ Transplantation: A Case Report.

Transplantation of any organ has some inherent risk of disease transmission, such as infection and malignancy. The present study aims to describe 2 cases of choriocarcinoma transmission after kidney and liver transplantation originating from the same patient. The donor was a 17-year-old woman who died of cerebral hemorrhage.

Fall in organ donations and transplants in Ceará in the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive study, April - June 2020.

Objective: To describe organ donations and transplants in Ceará state, Brazil, following the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This was a descriptive study using data from the Brazilian Organ Transplantation Association. The number of donors and transplants from April to June 2020 was compared to the same period in 2019 and to the first quarter of 2020.

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Kidney Transplantation under Urgency Priority Condition.

Background: In several countries, patients with end-stage renal disease who are ineligible for dialysis are considered urgency priority (UP) for kidney transplantation (KT) through distinct allocation rules. There are scarce published data on clinical features and outcomes after KT of these patients.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed and compared demographic and clinical pretransplant characteristics and outcomes after KT of all patients transplanted under UP allocation in a single Brazilian transplant center from January 10 to March 16 (n = 74) and 1: 1 patients transplanted under standard allocation in the same period (n = 74).

Guidelines for the assessment and acceptance of potential brain-dead organ donors.

Organ transplantation is the only alternative for many patients with terminal diseases. The increasing disproportion between the high demand for organ transplants and the low rate of transplants actually performed is worrisome. Some of the causes of this disproportion are errors in the identification of potential organ donors and in the determination of contraindications by the attending staff.

Profile of patients in the Unified Waiting List for heart transplantation in state of Ceará.

Background: Organ transplants have increased considerably in recent years because of technological developments and society's awareness for organ donation.

Objective: To describe the characteristics of the single list of patients waiting for heart transplantation; to identify the main heart diseases; and determine the average time a patient stays in the list until the surgery.

Methods: This is a descriptive, documentary and retrospective study with a quantitative approach.