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Statistics

In 2010, a national public opinion poll, Views Toward Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation, was conducted by Ipsos Reid for Canadian Blood Services.

 

London Health Sciences Centre:

At University Hospital and the Children’s Hospital, London Health Sciences Centre, a total of 4,676 organ transplants have been done since our first transplant in 1973:

• kidney = 2,157 (includes deceased and living donors)
• liver = 1,742 (includes deceased and living donors)
• heart = 603
• kidney-pancreas = 51
• multi-visceral = 16
• pancreas = 1

• lung = 48 *
• heart-lung = 47 *
• bowel = 11 *

* Previously, the Multi-Organ Transplant Program performed lung, heart-lung, and bowel transplants. Although we no longer provide these types of transplants, the information is provided here as a cumulative list of the total transplants done.

The London region continues to have a high organ donation rate (number of donors per million population), well above the Canadian average and rivalling the top countries (source: www.tpm.org):

In Ontario:

Presently, 1,524 patients are waiting for an organ transplant in Ontario.

During 2011, 940 organ transplants were done:

• deceased kidney donors = 311 transplants
• living kidney donors = 208 transplants
• kidney-pancreas = 29 transplants
• deceased liver donors = 184 transplants
• living liver donors = 45 transplants
• heart = 61 transplants
• lung = 102 transplants

For more information about Ontario statistics, visit the Trillium Gift of Life Network.

In Canada:

During 2010, 2,153 organ transplants were performed:

• deceased kidney donors = 749 transplants
• living kidney donors = 485 transplants
• deceased liver donors = 379 transplants
• living liver donors = 64 transplants
• heart = 167 transplants
• lung (single or double) = 178 transplants
• pancreas = 23 transplants
• islet cell = 44 transplants
• intestine = 1 transplant
• ‘other’ types of combined organs (such as heart-lung; liver-kidney etc.) = 63 transplants

Unfortunately, another 4,529 Canadians remained on the waiting list for a life-saving organ transplant, and 247 patients died while waiting. [Source: e-Statistics Report on Transplant, Waiting List and Donor Statistics, Canadian Institute for Health Information: 2010 Summary Statistics ]

For further information about Canadian statistics, visit the Canadian Organ Replacement Register.

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