Infographic: Fifty Years of Transplant at UVA

Learn more about organ and tissue donation. Visit the UVA Transplant Center.

Infographic text: UVA’s Transplant Program at 50 Years

Donating a kidney or part of your liver can save someone’s life. And it’s something you can do now, either for a loved one or a stranger.

• We receive over 3,800 organ offers annually
• More than 5,000 patients have been transplanted
• There are currently over 600 patients on our waitlist
• We add more than 400 names to our waitlist each year
• Our transplant center began in the 1967
• There are 10 transplant programs at UVA:
  • Adult heart
  • Pediatric Heart
  • Adult Liver
  • Pediatric Liver
  • Adult Kidney
  • Pediatric Kidney
  • Pediatric Lung
  • Islet Cell
  • Adult Lung
  • Adult Pancreas
• A kidney has 24-48 hours to be transplanted
• A lung has 6 hours to be transplanted
• A heart has 4 hours to be transplanted
• A liver has 16 hours to be transplanted
• Our patients live because other give. Become an organ donor.
• Visit www.donatelifevirginia.org
• If interested in living donation, please call 1.800.543.8814