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. 2021 Feb 15;22(3):e52162. doi: 10.15252/embr.202052162

Figure 1. Organ transplantation and preservability status.

Figure 1

Statistics show a positive correlation between the duration of ex vivo preservation and the number of organ transplants. Number of solid organs transplanted in 2017 (A). Percentage of organs failed to be transplanted (B). Duration of solid organ ex vivo preservation in static cold storage (C). Sources: Data from the Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation and (Parsons et al, 2014), (Guibert et al, 2011) and (Editorial: Buying time for transplants (2017))