Matching Criteria for Transplants
Who decides which patients get a heart, and why? About twenty people die every day waiting for a transplant. More than 100,000 are waiting for an organ. Think about the typical (median) lengths of times patients wait for a transplant.
- 4 months for a heart or lung
- 5 months for a small intestine
- 9 months for a pancreas
- 12 months for a liver
- 39 months for a kidney
