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Taiwan does well in organ-transplant survival statistics

Taiwan can compete with the US in terms of kidney and liver-transplant survival rates, but it still has room for progress in heart and lung-transplant operations, the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) said yesterday.

The BNHI report showed that Taiwan's kidney-transplant patients' three-month survival rate was on average 98 percent; the one-year survival rate was 96 percent and the three-year survival rate was 92 percent.

Compared with figures posted on the US-based United Network for Organ Sharing, BNHI officials said Taiwan was on a par with the US in terms of kidney-transplant patients' survival rates.

On liver transplants, Taiwan patients' average three-month survival rate was 91 percent, compared to 88 percent for the one-year survival rate and 84 percent for the three-year survival rate. The levels were also compatible with US rates and Taiwan even outpaced the US in terms of liver transplant patients' three-year survival rate.
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