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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 650,000 patients per year in the United States and an estimated 2 million patients worldwide are affected by end stage renal disease (ESRD). ESRD is increasing in the United States by 5% per year. Those who live with ESRD are 1% of the U.S. Medicare population but account for 7% of the Medicare budget. More than 100,000 patients in the United States are on the kidney transplant list, but each year there are less than 20,000 available donor kidneys.