Organ Donations
This week is National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. The United Network for Organ Sharing, which administers the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the U.S. Scientific Registry on Organ Transplantation under contracts with the U.S. government, had, as of April 7, a national patient waiting list for organ transplant that included:
Type of transplant: Kidney
Number of patients waiting: 41,302
Type of transplant: liver
Number of patients waiting: 12,648
Type of transplant: Pancreas
Number of patients waiting: 447
Type of transplant: Kidney-pancreas
Number of patients waiting: 1,821
Type of transplant: Intestine
Number of patients waiting: 120
Type of transplant: Heart
Number of patients waiting: 4,209
Type of transplant: Heart-lung
Number of patients waiting: 244
Type of transplant: Lung
Number of patients waiting: 3,191
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The number of transplant procedures performed in 1997, based on the Scientific Registry as of Jan. 4:
Type of transplant: Liver
Number: 4,165
Type of transplant: Heart
Number: 2,292
Type of transplant: Heart-lung
Number: 62
Type of transplant: Lung
Number: 928
Type of transplant: Intestine
Number: 67
* Source: United Network for Organ Sharing
