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