Fausto Silva receives a new liver, he knows how organ transplants in Brazil work

The country is a world reference in the transplant area

The presenter Fausto Silva, 75, was subjected to a liver transplant last Wednesday 6 in San Paolo. Surgery has rekindled the debate on how the transplant line works in Brazil – a complex process, coordinated by the Unified Health System (Sus), which follows technical criteria and rigorous doctors.

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The in -line position takes into account factors such as the blood group, compatibility with the donor, waiting times and, in particular, the severity of the patient’s health. Although the list is national, the distribution of the bodies occurs at regional level, respecting the time limits and the transport logistics to guarantee the profitability of transplants.

Brazil is also a world reference in transplants and has the largest public transplant system in the world. In absolute numbers, the country is the second largest transplant in the world, behind only the United States.

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Currently, over 46,000 people in Brazil are waiting for a transplant body. Of these, over 43,000 are waiting for a kidney transplant. From January to August 2025, the kidney was the most transplanted organ in the country, with 3,847 procedures performed. So the liver appears, with 1,516 transplants, just under half of the total kidney interventions in the period.

There are two types of transplantation of this organ: alive and deceased. The waiting list for an organ works based on technical criteria are:

• Patients in critical conditions, with risk of death, for example, are treated with priority, due to their clinical conditions;
• The types of blood, weight and height compatibility, genetic compatibility and distinct criteria of gravity for each organ determine the order of patients to be transplanted;
• The total impossibility of access to dialysis (blood filtration) in the case of kidney patients; severe acute hepatic insufficiency for liver patients; Need for circulatory assistance for patients with heart disease; And the refusal of recent transplanted bodies are also used criteria;
• When the technical criteria are similar, the chronological order of registration, that is, the order of arrival, acts as a tiebreaker.

Source: Terra

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