1. THE REGISTRY OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEART AND LUNG TRANSPLANTATION: TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

2. MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ISHLT TRANSPLANT REGISTRY Australia and New Zealand Cardiothoracic Organ Transplant Registry (ANZCOTR): Australia Eurotransplant (ET): AustriaGermanySlovenia BelgiumNetherlands Scandiatransplant: DenmarkNorway FinlandSweden United Kingdom Transplant Services Authority (UKTSSA): United KingdomIreland United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS): United States In addition, 77 individual centers from North America, Central/South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East have reported at least one transplant since 1995. ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: We wish to extend our sincere thanks to the many thoracic transplant surgeons, physicians and data coordinators in transplant programs throughout the world whose timely and accurate submission of data has made these analyses possible. ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

4. REGISTRY STEERING COMMITTEE Marshall Hertz – Medical Director Elbert Trulock – Associate Dir. for Lung Transplantation David O. Taylor – Associate Dir. for Heart Transplantation Mark Boucek – Associate Dir. for Pediatric Heart Transplantation David Waltz – Associate Dir. for Pediatric Lung Transplantation Amanda Rowe – ISHLT Executive Director Berkeley Keck – Associate Dir. for Database Management Leah Edwards – Associate Dir. for Data Analysis ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

5. General Registry Statistics ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

6. REGISTRY DATABASE: Number of Transplants Reported ORGAN Transplants Reported from 7/1/2004 through 6/30/2005 Total Transplants Reported through 6/30/2005 Heart2,87273,000 Heart-Lung633,154 Lung1,76921,265 ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

7. REGISTRY DATABASE: Number of Centers Reporting Transplants Organ Centers Ever Reporting Data Centers Reporting Transplants in 1995 Centers Reporting Transplants between 1/2004 and 6/2005 Heart343248201 Heart-Lung1395645 Lung210122109 ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

8. REGISTRY DATABASE: Number of Centers Reporting Heart Transplants ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

9. REGISTRY DATABASE: Number of Centers Reporting Lung Transplants ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911

10. REGISTRY DATABASE: Number of Centers Reporting Heart-Lung Transplants ISHLT 2006 J Heart Lung Transplant 2006;25:869-911