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Kidney transplantation is a replacement therapy option for patients with end-stage renal failure, where a healthy kidney from a living or deceased donor is transplanted into these patients who are usually on some type of dialysis. Understanding the number of transplants and their territorial characteristics is one of the major challenges in the Unified Health System (SUS) for the implementation of new reference centers and public campaigns aimed at individuals with chronic kidney disease and potential donors. . The present study aims to compare the number of hospitalizations for kidney transplants in Brazil between 2012 and 2022, and describe a possible territorial disparity involving the procedure. Descriptive study of kidney transplants in Brazil over the last 10 years, using data available on the websites of the SUS Information Technology Department (Data-SUS) and the Brazilian Association of Organ Transplants (ABTO), with analysis data frequency lysis and geoprocessing. It is observed that from 2012 to 2019 there was a progressive increase in the number of kidney transplants, however, subsequent years showed a considerable reduction compared to 2012. In general, the largest number of donors are deceased and the region The Southeast has the greatest history of transplants in Brazil. The years 2020 to 2022 show a progressive reduction in the number of kidney transplants performed, suggesting that the pandemic may have compromised the performance of these procedures, as well as the availability of organ donors. Furthermore, it is possible to understand that awareness about organ donation is a determining factor in changing indicators, especially inter-living donations.
Marães et al. (Fri,) studied this question.