The beneficiary is a 57-year-old patient from the city of Coronel Oviedo on hemodialysis for more than 3 years.
The donor is a 62-year-old whose relatives said yes to organ donation, which today allows a second chance at life for the kidney patient.
The entire surgical procedure itself and the subsequent control of the transplanted patient, has the support of the National Institute of Ablation and Transplantation and the Central Laboratory of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare.
Kidney Transplant Statistics
At the Hospital de Clínicas, since the Reactivation of the Organ and Tissue Transplant Program in 2014, 143 kidney transplants have been performed, of which 63 were thanks to cadaveric donors.
So far in 2022, this is the second kidney transplant with a cadaveric donor, according to information provided by the Transplant Team.
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