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Figure 1 The Actuarial Survival on the U.S. Heart Transplant Waiting List: Years 1990–2005
The actuarial survival on the heart transplant waiting list was calculated for 18,004 United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) status 1 candidates (A) and 30,978 UNOS status 2 candidates (B) listed between years 1990 and 2005 in the U.S. The results were stratified by 3 eras of listing: I (years 1990–1994), II (years 1995–1999), and III (years 2000–2005), respectively. The analyses were censored at time of transplantation, removal from the waiting list due to worsening or improvement of condition, or the day of last observation on June 1, 2006, and did not account for subsequent changes of UNOS status or temporary inactivation of status.
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