According to a press conference held by the National Health Commission on June 22, the five-year survival rate of liver transplant recipients in China rose from around 59% in 2014 to 71% in 2017.\u00a0 The one-year survival rate and three-year survival rate of liver transplant recipients in China reached 84% and 75% respectively, on a par with the international standard, said Guo Yanhong, an official with the commission.<\/p>\n
Guo said China conducted 4,732 liver transplant operations in 2017, up over 26% year on year. Among them, 4,138 came from donations after cardiac deaths. The current average waiting time for a liver transplant in China is 27.5 days, compared with 120 days needed in the United States, according to Guo. (Source: Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to a press conference held by the National Health Commission on June 22, the five-year survival rate of liver transplant recipients in China rose from around 59% in 2014 to 71% in 2017.\u00a0 The one-year survival rate and three-year survival rate of liver transplant recipients in China reached 84% and 75% respectively, on a par with the international standard, said Guo Yanhong, an official with the commission. Guo said China conducted 4,732 liver transplant operations in 2017, up over 26% year on year. Among them, 4,138 came from donations after cardiac deaths. The current average waiting time for a liver transplant in China is 27.5 days, compared with 120... Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicalnews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssri.com\/china\/e\/medicalnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}