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Living Kidney Donation in Brazil (2010-2023): An Ecological Time-Series of Donor-Recipient Relationship, Waiting List, and Hospital Indicators Compared with Deceased Donation

2026-02-10 nephrology Title + abstract only
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IntroductionChronic kidney disease imposes a high clinical and economic burden on the Brazilian Unified Health System, and kidney transplantation offers the best prognosis. ObjectiveTo describe trends in living kidney (LD) donation in Brazil (2010-2023), analyzing the donor-recipient relationship and the operational stock-to-annual production ratio on the waiting list, and to compare hospital indicators and estimated patient and graft survival between LD and deceased-donor (DD) kidney transplan...

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