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About one-third of patients wait a year or less for transplant, while one-third wait one to three years and the remainder three years or more.

Apheresis is the process through which a donor gives certain blood components such as platelets or plasma instead of whole blood.

People who have successful heart valve surgery suddenly find they can do things like go for a walk.

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Heart valve donors can range in age from newborn to about 55 years of age.

Donated bone and connective tissues including tendons, ligaments and cartilage are used every day to help treat hundreds of different types of procedures to reduce pain, restore mobility and save limbs from amputation.

Transplantation Marrow transplantation replaces the diseased marrow of the donor with marrow from a living donor.

Other conditions that can generate a need for new lungs are idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis, and primary pulmonary hypertension.

Many liver diseases cause cirrhosis, scarring that occurs with inflammation.