Here's what a quick search turned up.
Success of Transplants Rising, but Access to Kidneys Restricted centerspan.org
In one report (1998;280:1153-1160), Hung-Mo Lin, PhD, of the United Network for Organ Sharing and colleagues analyzed data reported by UNOS in 1997 that covered 97,587 solid organ transplants performed on 92,966 recipients at 742 transplant programs from January 1988 to April 1994. One-year and three-year survival rates ranged from highs of 91% and 86%, respectively, for kidney transplants to lows of 62% and 50%, respectively, for heart-lung transplants.
First Major Kidney Transplant Study Shows Increased Organ Survival Rates mcw.edu
The researchers looked at one-year post-transplant survival rates for all
transplants from both living and cadaver donors and found one-year, living
donor kidney transplant survival improved from 88.8 to 93.9 percent. For
the cadaver renal transplant, one-year survival improved from 75.7 to 87.7
percent
I assume "survival" here includes the transplanted kidney, but it's not entirely clear. "Organ survival" sounds unambiguous, but the text itself is vague. |
