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1Transplante e Cirurgia do Figado, Hospital das Clinicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, SP, Brazil. bacchell@usp.br
Transplantation Proceedings
|June 15, 2004
Abstract:
The first clinical orthotopic liver transplantation in Brazil was performed on August 5, 1968. The patient was awake after surgery and died on the seventh postoperative day due to subdural hematoma, bronchopneumonia, renal failure, and graft rejection. The report of this case is important to understand the evolution of clinical liver transplantation in Brazil, where this procedure is now routinely carried out in many medical centers.
