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Isabel Veloso, 19, Dies After Transplant Complications, Hospital Says

The Brazilian influencer had chronicled her Hodgkin lymphoma treatment for years, drawing wide public attention.

Overview

  • Her husband, Lucas Veloso Borbas, announced the death on Saturday in an Instagram tribute after her weeks-long hospitalization in Curitiba.
  • Hospital Erasto Gaertner said she died from complications related to a bone marrow transplant performed last year.
  • She received the transplant in October 2025 with her father as donor and later required ICU care for respiratory failure, high magnesium levels, pneumonia and severe infections.
  • Family accounts described graft rejection concerns, and her father publicly alleged inadequate hematology follow-up at the hospital.
  • Diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma at 15, Veloso documented her care to millions of followers and leaves a one-year-old son, Arthur.