RICHMOND, Va.-The number of living organ donors, minority organ transplants, and older organ donors has been on the rise over the last ten years, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing's (UNOS) recently released 1999 Annual Report of the U.S. Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
The report presents data on transplantation that occurred from 1989 to 1998, and this is the second year in which data are only included from the most recent 10-year period. Older data would add "little to the knowledge of the transplantation field today," UNOS noted.
For the first time in its nine-year history, this year's report presents information on living liver donors and recipients, presents characteristics for all recipients and all waiting list registrants, lists multiorgan transplants separately from single-organ transplants, and reports death rates for all registrants on each organ-specific waiting list rather than dividing registrants into two cohorts.
The report also identifies the following trends that took place from 1989 to 1998:
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