Registered Members    Remember credentials Who is waiting for a transplant? Registrations on the Eurotransplant waiting list, organ from 2001 to 2005 All registration events 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2004/2005 kidney 5183 5340 5132 5409 5214 -3.6% heart 921 894 1083 1050 1061 1.0% lung 481 603 626 695 725 4.3% liver 2025 2195 2419 2369 2306 -2.7% pancreas 359 435 366 379 364 -4.0% New registrations 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2004/2005 kidney 4412 4525 4362 4569 4359 -4.6% heart 896 865 1052 1018 1033 1.5% lung 455 566 586 660 683 3.5% liver 1766 1974 2131 2087 1998 -4.3% pancreas 322 373 299 325 304 -6.5% Re - registrations 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2004/2005 kidney 771 815 770 840 855 1.8% heart 25 29 31 32 28 -12.5% lung 26 37 40 35 42 20.0% liver 259 221 288 282 308 9.2% pancreas 37 62 67 54 60 11.1% Annual report (2005) of the Eurotransplant International Foundation Who is waiting for a transplant? Why the shortage? Why are transplanted organs rejected? What is xenotransplantation? Why Xenotransplantation and what are its potential benefits? What animals would be used for xenotransplants? Have animal organs or tissues been used in humans before? What are the potential risks of xenotransplantation? How are scientists trying to prevent hyperacute rejection of xenotransplants? What is a Transgenic animal? Have transgenic pigs got rid of the rejection problems for xenotransplants? Can transgenic pig organs be transplanted into humans? Do pig organs carry potentially infectious agents such as viruses that could be transmitted to human recipients? What is a retrovirus? Have PERVs put an end to pig to human transplants then? Has PERV ever been transmitted to a human? Is xenotransplantation the only solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation? What is Reproductive Cloning? What is Transfection? What is Nucleofection? Are pig cells transplanted into brains likely to behave in the same way as human cells? Can pig nerve cells survive in the brain? To repair brain damage, are pig cells better than stem cells? Is the XENOME Project concerned about the welfare of animals?