The Pequeno Príncipe Hospital performs kidney, liver, heart, cardiac valves, tissue, and bone marrow transplants. The practice began in the 1970s, with musculoskeletal tissue transplants. In 1989, the first solid organ transplant was performed: it was a kidney. Over the years, transplant services have been expanded and improved. In 2022, 275 transplants were performed, which means lives transformed – such as the life of the eight-year-old Nathan Francisco Rigo de Moura (photo), character of the fifth edition’s main article of Pequeno Príncipe News in 2023.

The structure of ICUs, with 68 beds; the Surgical Center, with nine rooms; the availability of professionals from 35 medical specialties; and the 24 diagnostic and treatment services with highly specialized teams offer an important backup, supporting these procedures. One of the highlights is the team of anesthesiologists, who have the expertise to conduct sedation in low-weight patients in long-term procedures. Click here and see more details of this article.

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• ECA and SUS complement each other to guarantee the rights of children and adolescents: The Child and Adolescent Statute (ECA, abbreviation in Portuguese) completed 33 years on the 13th of July. And on September 19 will be celebrated the anniversary of the law that established the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS, also in Portuguese). Born in 1990, the two laws are fundamental pillars for social well-being and the protection of the rights of boys and girls in Brazil, with emphasis on health and life.
• Project investigates inborn errors of immunity in hospitalized children: One research project developed at the Pelé Pequeno Príncipe Research Institute will benefit in its first stage around one hundred children hospitalized at the Pequeno Príncipe with serious or repeated infections. It will be investigated through tests whether they have any genetic alteration that justifies the inborn errors of immunity that make their bodies face difficulty in fighting infections. The project also aims to identify new genetic alterations associated with these conditions.
• Pequeno Príncipe receives award at the Brazilian Conference of Hospital Pharmacy: The Pequeno Príncipe was highlighted at the XIV Brazilian Conference of Hospital Pharmacy, the biggest pharmaceutical event in Brazil and in Latin America, held earlier in June. With six works registered, the institution competed with another 544 abstracts by health services from all over the country and won first place with the research “Pharmacist in the Health Value Office: study of micro-costing of hospitalized patients with suspected intracranial hypertension”.