About the Authors

Tainá Veras de Sandes-Freitas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

taina.sandes@gmail.com

Affiliations Departamento de Medicina Clínica, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, Serviço de Nefrologia e Transplante Renal, Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, Setor de Transplantes, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Lucio Requião Moura

Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital do Rim, Fundação Oswaldo Ramos, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Nephrology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Deise Rosa de Boni Monteiro de Carvalho

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Avançado de Transplante de Órgãos e Tecidos, Hospital São Francisco na Providência de Deus, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Valter Duro Garcia

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Transplantes, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Luis Gustavo Modelli de Andrade

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Medicina Interna, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil

Marilda Mazzali

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Disciplina de Nefrologia, Faculdade de Ciencias Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil

Roberto Ceratti Manfro

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Serviço de Nefrologia, Unidade de Transplante Renal, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Luciane Mônica Deboni

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Serviço de Transplante, Hospital Municipal São José de Joinville, Fundação Pró-Rim, Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Elias Davi-Neto

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Serviço de Transplante renal, Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Claudia Maria Costa de Oliveira

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Serviço de Nefrologia e Transplante Renal, Hospital Universitário Walter Cantídio, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Frederico Castelo Branco Cavalcanti

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidade de Nefrologia, Real Hospital Português de Beneficência em Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

Rafael Lage Madeira

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidade de Transplante Renal, Hospital Felício Rocho, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ronaldo de Matos Esmeraldo

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Setor de Transplantes, Hospital Geral de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Denise Rodrigues Simão

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Transplante Renal, Hospital Santa Isabel, Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Ana Carolina Guedes Meira

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidade de Transplante Renal, Santa Casa Montes Claros, Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Gustavo Fernandes Ferreira

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidade de Transplante Renal, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Marcus Lasmar

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Serviço de Nefrologia, Hospital Universitário Ciências Médicas, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Alexandre Tortoza Bignelli

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unidade de Transplante Renal, Hospital Universitário Cajuru, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Alvaro Pacheco-Silva

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

José Medina Pestana

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital do Rim, Fundação Oswaldo Ramos, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Nephrology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Hélio Tedesco Silva

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital do Rim, Fundação Oswaldo Ramos, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Nephrology Division, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

on behalf of the DGF-Brazil Study Group

Membership list of the DGF-Brazil Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The study received financial support from Contatti Comercio e Representações Ltda, The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.