2021
DOI: 10.34067/kid.0003612021
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Global Perspective on Kidney Transplantation: Brazil

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“…Brazil has an extensive public healthcare system known as the Unified Healthcare System (SUS), and public health expenditures in the country represent approximately 9% of the gross domestic product (GDP). The national organ transplant system, which is the largest in the world, is responsible for conducting 95% of all solid organ transplants as well as purchasing immunosuppressants [ 1 ].…”
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“…Brazil has an extensive public healthcare system known as the Unified Healthcare System (SUS), and public health expenditures in the country represent approximately 9% of the gross domestic product (GDP). The national organ transplant system, which is the largest in the world, is responsible for conducting 95% of all solid organ transplants as well as purchasing immunosuppressants [ 1 ].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The South and Southeast regions have access rates similar to those in Spain, and the North and Northeast regions have up to 15 times lower performances. There is also a refusal rate of 42% for organ donation in people with brain death in Brazil, perhaps because of cultural reasons or even a lack of understanding about the process 10 .…”
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“…O que era uma opção de tratamento experimental, arriscado e muito limitado há cerca de 60 anos, atualmente é uma prática clínica de rotina em mais de 80 países. (4) (5) (6) No Brasil, o TR representa cerca de 70% do total dos TOs. (7) Segundo dados da Associação Brasileira de Transplantes de Órgãos (ABTO), o Brasil é hoje o segundo país que mais realiza transplantes renais no ocidente.…”
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“…(6) (35) A escolha por algum agente antiproliferativo ou por um inibidor de mTOR (imTOR) depende da percepção em relação às características do doador, do grau de sensibilização do receptor e do risco de doença por citomegalovírus, entre outros fatores. (6) Por fim, após a escolha do esquema de imunossupressão inicial, mudanças posteriores, como minimizações e conversões, apenas são preconizadas quando motivadas por eventos adversos ou relacionados à falência de eficácia ou de segurança. (35) (36) 1.1 TRANSPLANTE RENAL, IMUNOSSUPRESSÃO E PELE O uso da medicação imunossupressora traz diversos efeitos secundários, entre eles cutâneos.…”
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