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Mayo patients do well before and after liver transplant. Of the 16,000 people on liver transplant lists in the United States, 6,300 undergo transplantation each year, and 1,400 others die waiting. Short- and long-term survival statistics and wait list deaths for more than 100 U.S. transplant centers are easily accessible at the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) website.
More than 1,400 lung transplants occurred in the United States in 2007, the last full year for which statistics are available. Another 2,000 Americans remain on lung waiting lists, while 90 more are waiting for both a heart and lung.elease Date: January 27, 2009. January 23, 2009- Transplant surgeons at Johns Hopkins have evidence that hospitals performing at least 20 lung transplant procedures a year, on average, have the best overall patient survival rates and lowest number of deaths from the complex surgery.