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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Biotechnol. 2017 Jun 7;35(6):530–542. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3889

Figure 3.

Figure 3

10-year graft survival for each of the six vital organs currently transplanted (single-organ, deceased donor transplant)49. 10-year survival rates for organs range from slightly over 50% (hearts and livers) to slightly over 25% (lungs and intestine). These data indicate that ensuring transplant organ quality and reducing susceptibility to chronic rejection are still major challenges in transplantation. Preservation advances present diverse opportunities to meet these challenges (Table 2).