1 What you should know about organ transplantation:

1 Physicians can transplant the heart, kidney, liver, lung, pancreas, intestine, bone and other tissues Stanford Hospital & Clinics is one of only three hospitals in California that perform transplants of heart, heart-lung, liver, lung, kidney, kidney-pancreas and intestine. In California, the current waiting list for organs tallies more than 20,000; total transplants performed in the state in 2006 reached 3,064. Nearly 80 percent of the current California waiting list requests are for kidneys. Last year, just over 10 percent of those requests were filled. Every 11 minutes in the United States, another name is added to the organ transplant waiting list. The current waiting list numbers more than 100,000. From January to May of this year, about 12,000 transplants were performed in the U.S. The length of time spent on a waiting list is determined by medical need, expected outcome, blood and tissue type, size of organ, height and weight of candidate, an individual hospital's criteria for recipient and donor acceptance, and distance between donor and recipient hospital.