The Transplant Network


U.S. Transplantation Data
  • More than 100,000 men, women and children currently await life-saving transplants.
  • There are 1,946 children under the age of 18 currently waiting.
  • Every 13 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.
  • An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.


  • Transplant Waiting List

Listed below is summary transplantation data for the entire United States, including the number of candidates currently on the waiting list, by organ type. You can also find totals for the number of transplants performed and donors recovered during the time periods specified below.

 

Waiting list candidates as of May 1, 2009

 

All 102,072
Kidney 79,696
Pancreas 1,505
Kidney/Pancreas 2,248
Liver 15,853
Intestine 213
Heart 2,793
Lung 1,956
Heart/Lung 84
All candidates will be less than the sum due to candidates waiting for multiple organs

 

 

Transplants performed January - January 2009

 

Total 2,357
Deceased Donor 1,845
Living Donor 512
Based on OPTN data as of 04/24/2009
 


 

Donors recovered January - January 2009

 

Total 1,170
Deceased Donor 660
Living Donor 510
Based on OPTN data as of 04/24/2009

 

 

 


Source:  Transplant Patient  DataSource.  Richmond, VA:
United Network for Organ Sharing.  Retrieved:  
May 1, 2009 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.unos.org/data



 

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