Organ Waiting List numbers January 2001

SOURCE: Waiting List from individual transplant units and the National Organ Matching System. Transplant figures cross checked using figures provided by individual transplant units and the Australia and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry data.

Organ Waiting List at January 2001

Waiting List reflects the number waiting to be transplanted by the State Transplant Units and not by patient's state of origin.

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	132	757	376	111	111	1487
Liver	14	33	22	3	5	77
Heart	2	21	27	3	5	58
Lung	21	18	49	8	4	100
Pancreas	12	11	15	4	0	42
Cornea	0	unavailable	95	0	50	-
Total	181	-	584	129	175	-

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Organ Donors in January - December 2000

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Organ Donors	37	55/5	44/1	30/2	22	196
DPMP *	10.4	8.5/16.1	9.2/2.1	20.0/10.3	11.7	10.2
Tissue Donors+	274	287	130	85	73	849

* DPMP - donors per million population

+ Tissue donors includes corneas, bone, heart valves (this figure does not include tissue donoted from organ donors)

Patients Transplanted January - December 2000

	QLD	NSW/ACT	VIC/TAS	SA/NT	WA	TOTAL
Kidney	105	162	136	69	56	528
- Cadaveric	69	116	82	54	29	350
- Live (%)**	36(34%)	46(28%)	54(40%)	15(22%)	27(48%)	178(34%)
Liver	46	51	30	8	14 (1 live)	149
Heart	9	20	22	-	6	57
Heart/Lung	0	2	0	-	-	2
Lung	12 7 double 1 single	36 19 double 0 single	42 15 double 6 single	-	-	90 65 double 25 single
Pancreas #	-	18	8	-	-	26
Cornea	384	307	266	119	132	1208

Includes transplants performed with organs received from New Zealand.

** represents percentage of live donor kidney transplants compared to total transplants performed
# All pancreas transplants with a kidney except for 1 pancreas only in NSW

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