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. 2022 Dec 30;22(9):2217–2227. doi: 10.1111/ajt.17126

TABLE 6.

Proportion of organ recovery and discard by study period


Organ recovery
Organ SARS-CoV-2 donor status Study period
March 2020–November 2020 December 2020–August 2021
Kidney Negative 12 730 (95.4%) 18 092 (95.5%)
Positive 38 (94.7%) 496 (96.2%)
Liver Negative 6280 (77.5%) 9319 (74.3%)*
Positive 20 (60%) 242 (60.7%)*
Heart Negative 5755 (35.7%) 8340 (34.4%)*
Positive 18 (44.4%) 239 (22.6%)*

Organ discard
Organ SARS-CoV-2 donor status Study period (n, [% discard])
March 2020–November 2020 December 2020–August 2021
Kidney Negative 12 143 (19.7%)* 18 092 (22.6%)*
Positive 36 (44.4%)* 477 (28.3%)*
Liver Negative 4865 (9.2%) 6922 (9.7%)
Positive 12 (8.3%) 147 (7.5%)
Heart Negative 2054 (0.9%) 2845 (1.0%)
Positive 8 (0%) 54 (0%)

Abbreviation: SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

*

p < .05 for chi-square test for the association of proportion of recovery and discard by SARS-CoV-2 status within each era.