An article in Floha de S. Paulo, tells of the first inter-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil:
Transplante renal pareado amplia opção para pacientes que têm doador, mas não podem receber o rim by Claudia Collucci
English translation:
Paired kidney transplant expands options for patients who have a donor but can't receive the kidney
Article summary:
For the first time in Brazil, two transplant centers in different cities carried out a paired kidney donation — swapping incompatible living donors so each recipient gets a compatible kidney from someone else's donor instead. The initiative was led by Hospital das Clínicas at USP's medical school (HCFMUSP) in São Paulo and Santa Casa de Juiz de Fora in Minas Gerais.
The surgeries happened simultaneously at both hospitals — a donor from São Paulo traveled to Juiz de Fora to donate to the Minas Gerais recipient, while the donor from Minas Gerais went to Hospital das Clínicas in São Paulo to donate to the São Paulo patient.
the two hospitals use an internationally developed (U.S.-built) platform that cross-references immunological traits, body size, and donor kidney quality to identify the best-matching combinations — this is functionally the same kind of algorithm we've been discussing with NKR.
Brazil has no specific regulation for paired kidney donation under its National Transplant System, so the procedure currently proceeds only as research.
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Earlier:
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Kidney exchange in Brazil (a clinical trial)
Here's a video in which Mike Rees, the founder of the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation (APKD) describes how (with the help of a grant from Stanford Impact Labs) the APKD is helping Brazilian transplant docs get kidney exchange going there.
Earlier:
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Stanford Impact Labs announces support for kidney exchange in Brazil, India, and the U.S.
Thursday, October 10, 2024 Kidney exchange in Brazil, continued (with pictures)
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