United Network for Organ Sharing

U.S. Waiting List Statistics

UNOS national patient waiting list for organ transplant contains over 49,000
registrations.

On October 16, 1996 there were:

33,933 registrations for a kidney transplant.

7,149 registrations for a liver transplant.

312 registrations for a pancreas transplant.

49 registrations for a pancreas islet cell transplant.

1,435 registrations for a kidney-pancreas transplant.

80 registrations for an intestine transplant.

3,682 registrations for a heart transplant.

219 registrations for a heart-lung transplant.

2,242 registrations for a lung transplant.

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49,101 TOTAL

Data based on a snapshot of the UNOS Waiting List on 10/16/96
NOTE: UNOS policies allow patients to be listed with more than one transplant center
(multiple listing), and thus the number of registrations may be greater than the actual
number of patients.

Numbers of Transplants Performed, January-December 1995*

914 kidney-pancreas transplants.

10,891 kidney transplants (3,209 from living donors).

110 pancreas transplants.

3,922 liver transplants.

2,361 heart transplants.

67 heart-lung transplants.

871 lung transplants.

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19,136 TOTAL

*Based on UNOS Scientific Registry data as of June 3, 1996. Double kidney,
double lung, heart-lung and kidney pancreas transplants are counted as one transplant.
Data subject to change due to future data submission or correction.

UNOS
The National Organ Procurement & Transplantation Network