Organ Donation and Utilization in the United States, 1999-2008

Abstract

In summary, after increasing throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, living organ donation has trended downward since the mid 2000s. Living kidney donation is still more common than it was one decade ago, but living donation of pancreata, livers, intestines and lungs was less common in 2008 than it was in 1999. During this time the demographics of living donors have changed to include a higher proportion of older individuals who are unrelated to the recipients.