“Less than 15% of patients actually listed for transplant end up receiving one — this is because of a lack of innovation and progress.”
David Gerber, MD, Division Chief,
Abdominal Organ Transplantation
UNC-Chapel Hill, CMO-Smart Perfusion Supplying Organ Transplants — A Medical Crisis
Few patients with failing organs get life-saving transplants due to supply!
- 400,000 patients in Chronic Renal Failure kept alive by artificial kidneys (hemodialysis), only 17,000 transplants per year.
- 100,000 patients in Chronic Liver Failure, only 6,000 transplants per year.
- Hundreds of thousands patients in Critical Heart Failure, only 2,000 transplants per year.
Why aren’t there enough organs?
- Too few donors to meet skyrocketing demand.
- Over 20% of harvested kidneys are not used.
- Some organs fail to work after transplantation.
- Approximately 40-50% of potential donor livers are never harvested, based solely on appearance.
- Livers and hearts not used within 12 hours are usually discarded, based on deterioration in transport.
- Some transplants ‘wear out’ after a few years …patients need new organs to stay alive.
The Smart Perfusion VasoWave ™ System is the solution to providing more organs and higher quality organs for transplantation.
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