Based on data from the national Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) as of Jan. 8, 2019. Data subject to change based on future data submission or correction.
The number of living donor transplants in 2018 represented the highest total since 2005, increasing nearly 11 percent over 2017.
More than 36,500 total transplants were performed in the United States in 2018 – the sixth record-setting year in a row.
In focus
Unexpected HCV donor-derived transmissions on the rise
Unexpected HCV donor-derived transmissions on the rise according to the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee
Getting patients ready for transplant sooner
How Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia reduced its inactive kidney waitlist by 17 percent
Similar survival rates for PAK and SPK transplants
A new study by UNOS researchers in the American Journal of Transplantation shows that sequential pancreas transplant after a kidney transplant (PAK) and simultaneous pancreas-kidney (SPK) transplants result in similar patient survival rates.