Question. Are there any statistics on this "greatly increased
longevity" which is claimed with organ transplants? From my straw
surveys, what I've seen is:

1. Patients are somewhat ill and have to take lots of pills each day
to prevent their bodies from rejecting the organ - some depressed
when the transplant did not deliver what they expected especially
the older set.

2. Life prolonged a couple of years but not that many

3. the transplanted organ going bad like the original did and
patient requiring another transplant.

I was wondering if there is available any long term studies on just
what the increased longevity and state of health IS on patients with
transplanted organs.

thanks,
Sue

--- In iatrogenic@yahoogroups.com, aia <aia@i...> wrote:
> > Article, with notes and references:
> > http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2004/Tabarrokorgans.html
> >
> > The Library of Economics and Liberty
> > Life-Saving Incentives: Consequences, costs and solutions to the
organ
> > shortage
> >
> > by Alexander Tabarrok*
> > April 5, 2004
> >
> > Alexander Tabarrok
> >
> > Every year the shortage of human organs grows worse. Between
1991 and 2001,
> > for example, the waiting list for an organ transplant more than
doubled from
> > under 30,000 to just over 80,000 (see Figure One). As a result,
the number of
> > deaths while on the waiting list has also been steadily
increasing and is now
> > approximately 6500 deaths a year. In fact, although the 6500
figure is widely
> > quoted, it is an underestimate of the number of deaths due to
the shortage.