Number of people
One organ, tissue, and cornea donor can help up to this many people.
What is 50?
This organ system is responsible for pumping and channeling blood around the body.
What is the circulatory system?
There are currently about 3,300 people in the United States, most of whom are suffering from cardiomyopathy or coronary artery disease, waiting for a life-saving transplant of this organ.
What is a heart?
In 2005 the first successful (partial) transplant of this was completed in France.
What is a face?
One liver from an adult donor can often be split and provide a transplant for this many recipients.
What is 2?
This organ system is responsible for structural support.
What is the skeletal system?
Many of the 1,600 people waiting for this organ suffer from cystic fibrosis.
What is a lung?
In 2003, HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson designated this month as National Donate Life Month.
What is April?
This group of people makes up 11 percent of Pennsylvania's population, but represents 32 percent of those on the waiting lists.
Who are African Americans?
This organ system is mainly responsible for fluid & electrolyte balance.
What is the urinary system?
95,000 people are undergoing dialysis while on the waiting list for this organ, although a person can live with only 1.
What is a kidney?
In 1954 the first successful transplant of this organ was performed when a living donor gave one to his identical twin.
What is a kidney?
On an average day, this many people die in the United States while waiting for an organ.
What is 20?
This system allows for locomotion, maintains posture, and produces heat.
What is the muscular system?
Although not always successful, some patients with Type I Diabetes Mellitus receive transplants of either the islet cells or the entirety of this organ.
What is a pancreas?
In 1976, it was discovered that cyclosporine has the ability to prevent this deadly side effect in organ recipients.
What is rejection?
Each day, an average of this many Americans receive a life-saving organ transplant, and thousands more benefit from cornea and tissue transplants.
What is 77?
This body organ system includes the stomach, liver, and gallbladder.
What is the digestive system?
A flat EEG, cerebral angiography, ultrasound imaging, and nuclear scans can all be used to determine a total lack of function, or death, of this organ.
What is the brain?
Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) defines death as either irreversible termination of circulatory and respiratory functions or irreversible termination of all functions of this organ.
What is the brain/brain stem?