End-organ failure is associated with high mortality and morbidity, in addition to increased
health care costs. Organ transplantation is the only definitive treatment that can improve …

Solid organ transplantation was one of the great advances in medicine in the 20 th century.
Indications and demand for transplantation have, however, led to a chronic shortage of …

Organ transplantation represents one of the great success stories of 20th century medicine.
However, its continued success is greatly limited by the shortage of donor organs. This has …

Despite multiple efforts to increase organ donation, there remains a critical shortage of
organ donors [1]. Furthermore, the number of organs procured per donor has remained …

As of August 2007, 96 900 people are awaiting organ transplantation in the United States,
while only 28 930 transplants were performed in 2006. With such a large gap between …

A shortage of organs is available for transplantation, with 116,000 patients on the Organ
Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) wait …

Organ transplantation improves survival and quality of life in patients with end-organ failure.
Waiting lists continue to grow across the world despite remarkable advances in the …

Organ transplantation is a therapy that benefits thousands of patients every year. Its
expansion is, however, limited by our chronic inability to meet the transplantation needs of …

itive for hepatitis C virus, those who have a behavioral risk profile for HIV infection (eg,
intravenous nontherapeutic injectable drug abuse), and those who have a history of cancer …

Mortality remains high for patients on the waiting list for organ transplantation. A marked
imbalance between the number of available organs and recipients that need to be …