Demand for transplantation has rapidly increased around the world during the past decade due to an increase in incidence of comorbidities leading to organ failure along with a rise in longevity in patient years.
This increase in demand has outpaced current graft survival and resulted in the need for re-transplantation – and for more organs. Consequently, there has been a major increase in the number of patients on transplant waitlists, as well as an increase in the number of patients dying waiting for a transplant. Read more in Healio.