Operation Transplant exclusively documents the journey of medical teams and patients involved in organ transplants in São Paulo. From organ procurement to hospital discharge, the episodes unveil intense challenges and the race for life.
EPISODE 2
A Chance to Live
A team needs to find the ideal heart for a terminally ill patient and keep him alive until the end of the surgery. Other surgeons face a double challenge to save the life of a baby who must receive part of a liver donated by his mother.
EPISODE 3
Between Siblings
Surgeons need to replace the lungs of a woman who has suffered for years from a severe disease. A team performs a living-donor liver transplant between two sisters. A hematologist coordinates a bone marrow transplant to save a 25-year-old young man.
EPISODE 4
The Greatest Gesture of Love
The liver transplant team needs to act quickly when faced with a serious complication that puts the patient at risk of death. A kidney transplant team operates on an older couple, still in love, who wish to live healthier lives for a long time.
EPISODE 5
Between Life and Death
A medical team embarks on a complex journey to give a new liver to a patient facing repeated and worrying hospitalizations. A team operates on a mother and daughter in a living-donor transplant.
EPISODE 6
Countdown
A multidisciplinary team faces a complex surgery that could change the fate of a young man with cirrhosis. A patient with a severe case of diabetes needs a dual pancreas-kidney transplant. And a housewife has little time to receive a new heart.
EPISODE 7
Back to Life
An experienced surgeon and his team perform a pancreas-kidney transplant on a patient who lost his vision and kidneys due to diabetes. A team is called to operate on a niece and her aunt in an attempt to restore the young woman's health.
Rodrigo Astiz
