Live transplant desk·18 Sept 2026

Pulse

National volumes, preservation science, and policy — from OPTN, PubMed, and the Federal Register.

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Liver tx
8,782
Jan 1, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026
Deceased donors
11,182
DCD 5,948
Waiting list
110,449
62,584 active
Top Tx center
237
Houston Methodist Hospital · liver

Liver transplants

8,782

Jan 1, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026 · liver only

DBD

4,458

Liver

DCD

3,822

46% of deceased

Living

502

Liver

Jan 1, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026 · liver transplants · DCD shown with % of deceased. Click a center for its account card. Tick a box to watch it.

#	Total cases	DBD	DCD	LD
1	237	163	61 (27%)	13
2	204	109	84 (44%)	11
3	198	76	122 (62%)	0
4	182	72	106 (60%)	4
5	161	51	110 (68%)	0

Jan 1, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026 · liver recovered · % DCD of deceased (DBD + DCD). DCD shown with % of deceased. Chart: DCD % of total, 2022–2025

#	OPO	Total cases	DBD	DCD
1	CAOP · OneLegacy	432	254	172 (40%)
2	PADV · Gift of Life Donor Program	418	208	196 (49%)
3	MAOB · New England Donor Services	399	152	225 (60%)
4	PATF · CORE	385	116	218 (65%)
5	NYRT · LiveOnNY	380	149	149 (50%)

Machine perfusion (HOPE, NMP, NRP, EVLP, OCS), static cold storage, preservation solutions, viability, and ex situ resection

DCD, extended-criteria donors, OPOs, discard, and organ utilization — plus AI on donor organs

NewAnnals of surgery · in 13 days
Temporary Portal Vein Bypass for Resection of Pancreatic Neoplasms
Heckler M, Abdallah S, Kinny-Köster B, Berchtold C, Al-Saeedi M, Mehrabi A, Hackert T, Hinz U
PMID 39925251

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Transplant press514ms
PubMed3909ms
Federal Register359ms
Policy literature976ms
ClinicalTrials.gov413ms
OPTN / SRTR3477ms

OPTN numbers

Liver programs

OPOs

Preservation

Liver

Comparative analysis of early post-transplant infections after DCD with hypothermic oxygenated liver perfusion and DBD liver transplantation: A retrospective cohort study

Normothermic Regional Perfusion, Ex Situ Normothermic Machine Perfusion, or Both? National Trends in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation

Normothermic machine perfusion versus static cold storage for liver transplantation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Comment on "Back-to-base Versus In-transit Machine Perfusion in Donation After Circulatory Death Liver Transplantation: Insights From a National Registry"

Portal-Venous Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion for Liver Transplant: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Kidney

Association between hypothermic machine perfusion parameters and graft function in deceased donor kidney transplantation

Machine perfusion distribution across clinical phenotypes in kidney transplantation: A national cohort study using unsupervised clustering

Machine Perfusion Parameters and 1-Year Outcomes in High KDPI Kidney Transplantation: A Single-Center Cohort Study

Effects of End-ischemic Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion on 1-y Graft Function in Kidney Transplantation: A Real-world, Single-center Analysis From the United States

Predictive Value of Perfusate Cell-free DNA During Hypothermic and Normothermic Machine Perfusion of Donor Kidneys

Heart

Extending Normothermic Ex Situ Heart Preservation and Viability to 48 Hours via Protein Supplementation and Plasma Exchange

Human Ex Vivo Working-Heart Evaluation of Coronet-Framed Valve-Sparing Aortic Root Replacement

Monitoring Mitochondrial Function With High-Resolution Respirometry During Ex-Situ Heart Perfusion

Cold ischemic time and early vasoactive-inotropic support following heart transplantation with HTK-preserved donor hearts

Prolonged warm ischemia time and unsuccessful heart resuscitation with thoraco-abdominal normothermic regional perfusion may negatively affect lung function in a preclinical DCD model

Lung

Evaluation of 17β-estradiol treatment in rat lungs after circulatory death using in situ perfusion

Early-to-Midterm Outcomes of Lung Transplantation Following Procurement with Thoracoabdominal Regional Perfusion: An OPTN Analysis

The Role of Immunosuppression in Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion: A Systematic Review

Establishment of a Novel Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion System for Rat Lungs After Circulatory Death

Remote ex vivo lung perfusion at a centralized evaluation facility

Cross-organ

Safeguarding the dead donor rule in the age of normothermic regional perfusion: organismic unity, irreversibility, and epistemic responsibility

Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in Spain as a method of organ preservation for transplantation

Intra-abdominal Versus Descending Thoracic Cannulation Techniques for Abdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion

Thoracoabdominal Normothermic Regional Perfusion: Technical Tips for Abdominal Transplant Surgeons

Quantifying Flavin mononucleotide: an internationally validated methodological approach for enhanced decision making in organ transplantation

Donation

Liver

Preoperative NLR and INR, and intraoperative cold ischemia time as predictors of short-term mortality risk in paediatric liver transplantation: a LASSO-cox model study

Predictive biomarkers of early allograft dysfunction after liver transplantation: A prospective pilot study

Biliary complications in pediatric living donor liver transplantation: An international multicenter analysis of risk and prognostic factors

Clinical practice guidelines on liver transplantation for extended criteria donor grafts in China (2025 edition)

Artificial intelligence in liver transplant allocation: Promise, pitfalls, and ethical safeguards

Kidney

Predicting long-term allograft outcomes in kidney transplant recipients using a machine learning approach: a 5-year retrospective cohort study

Distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in renal vascular tissues from donors after brain death and association with post-transplant delayed graft function risk

Ovarian vein interventions in patients with combined radiologically significant left renal vein compression and symptomatic pelvic vein reflux

Predicting delayed graft function after kidney transplant: Do complex models help compared to standard statistics?

Ovarian vein bypass for renal allograft salvage in iliac vein atrophy: A case report and review of literature

Pancreas

Temporary Portal Vein Bypass for Resection of Pancreatic Neoplasms

Heart

Aggressive Donor Heart Acceptance and Early Outcomes After Heart Transplantation

National 6-Year Experience of Transplantation using Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death

When minutes matter: A practical reporting framework for avoidable ischemic time in donation after circulatory death heart transplantation

A Comparison of postoperative hemodynamic trajectories in donation after brain death versus circulatory death heart transplantation

Ensuring access to novel donor heart preservation modalities

Lung

Development and Validation of a Computed Tomography-Based Convolutional Neural Network Model for Assisting Donor Lung Acquisition in Lung Transplantation

Nanomedicine in Lung Transplantation: Emerging Solutions for Clinical Challenges

Effect of donor oxygenation trajectory on lung procurement for transplantation

Investigating the Impact of Donor Brain Death Duration on Outcomes after Lung Transplant

Extended static preservation of donor lungs at 10°C and early post-transplant outcomes: Experience from a center in the US

Cross-organ

Nurse-led AI-based educational intervention to improve adolescents' knowledge, attitudes, and willingness toward organ donation: A mixed-methods study

Does procurement technique or criteria for the declaration of death matter? A survey of public attitudes toward organ donation

The present and future of nonviral delivery-based genome editing for hereditary hearing loss

Artificial intelligence and machine learning in transplantation surgery care pathway

[Controlled Donation after Circulatory determination of Death (cDCD) : A position paper by the DCD working group of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI)]

Transplant news

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Health policy

Medicare Program; Alternative Payment Model Updates and the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model

Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Organ Procurement Organizations Conditions for Coverage: Revisions to the Conditions for Coverage

Organ Procurement and Transplantation: Implementation of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act

LA Organ Procurement celebrates OMV during September - Pelican Post

A Billboard and the HOPE ACT Helped Me Find a New Kidney

UNOS makes interim CEO permanent

Johnson Selected CEO At UNOS

Mark Johnson named CEO of UNOS

UNOS Staffing Survey provides trusted data for staffing decisions

Grimsby widow shares husband's organ donation legacy during awareness week