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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.
The 30,000 threshold was surpassed with transplants performed as of December 19, 2015. For the year, 30,973 transplants were reported, representing an increase of nearly 4.9 percent over 2014 and continuing a three-year trend of annual record numbers. Approximately 81 percent of the transplants (24,982) involved organs from deceased donors, who can donate multiple organs. Nineteen percent (5,986) were made possible by living donors.