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Show Transplant survival up There's encouraging news about organ transplants. Survival rates for organ transplant recipients continue rising, sometimes exceeding experts' ex-perts' most optimistic predictions, according to the latest figures from the United Network for Organ Sharing. Shar-ing. In fact, one of the biggest surprises sur-prises was one-year survival rates for transplanted pancreases, 71 percent, per-cent, up from only 45 percent three years previously. Other one-year survival rates ranged from 48 percent per-cent for lung-transplant patients to more than 90 percent for kidney-transplant kidney-transplant patients. |