BTW, we’re not talking about tons of cases:
According to the latest statistics from The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), 247 children were waiting for a heart transplant in the United States on June 1, 2007 including:
28 in the under 1 year age group
78 in the 1 to 5 years age group
63 in the 6 to 10 years age group
78 in the 11 to 17 years age group
I also just looked at one hospital in Virginia (U.Va.) and their survival rate for children aged 1-5 is 80 percent at 5 years. At three years it was 90 percent. The 3-year rate for those under 1 was 77 percent.
Those stats are much better than I would have thought.