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Fast Facts About Transplants, January 1, 2003 - December 31, 2003

  Measure Organ
Kidney Liver Pancreas Kidney-Pancreas Heart Lung Heart-Lung Intestine All
1. Patients on the waitlist, as of 12/31/2003* 54,23117,1711,3762,3903,5193,83618917282,884
2. Percent change in patients on the waitlist, from 01/01/2003 to 12/31/2003* 7%2%16%-1%-6%3%-4%-6% 
3. Number of patients who died while on the waitlist during year ending 12/31/2003* 3,3091,7103218950744716476,257
4. Total transplants during year ending 12/31/2003 15,1295,6695028702,0551,0852911625,455**
  Cadaveric donors 8,6655,3495028672,0551,0702911218,649**
  Living donors, related and unrelated 6,46432003015046,806**
5. Percent change in total transplants during year ending 12/31/2003 2%6%-9%-4%-5%4%-9%8% 
  Cadaveric donors 1%8%-9%-4%-5%4%-9%6% 
  Living donors, related and unrelated 4%-11%00015%00 
6. Percent survival at one year after transplant, adult patients transplanted 01/01/2001-06/30/2003; between 01/01/2001-12/31/2002 for HR, HL and LU 96%86%96%95%86%79%71%80% 
  * Patients registered on the waiting list multiple times are counted only once in this table.
** Total organs transplanted exceeds this number because heart-lung and kidney-pancreas transplants are counted only once in this table.
Source: This table is produced by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, under contract with Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The statistics are based on data available from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network as of 2004/04/30.

 


The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients is administered by URREA in conjunction with the University of Michigan.

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