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South Carolina Transplant Centers

Mid-pack volume · #22 of 48. South Carolina sits mid-pack for report-period volume with 3 SRTR-tracked centers across 5 organ types.

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This data is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult your transplant team for decisions about your care.

Center count is not volume

South Carolina ranks #28 of 48 states by SRTR center headcount but #22 by summed reported transplant volume — program inventory and throughput diverge here.

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Corpus placement ranks states by SRTR center headcount and by summed reported transplant volume separately. Volume is inventory, not a quality grade.

National corpus split

Texas leads with 26 SRTR-tracked transplant centers (#1 of 48 states) but ranks #1 by summed reported volume; California leads volume at 385,415 reported transplants (#1 of 48) with #2 center headcount.

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Texas centers #1
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Center headcount counts SRTR-listed transplant programs by state of record; volume sums program-specific transplants_performed fields. Neither is an outcomes or referral ranking.

Mid-pack volume · #22 of 48

3 centers · 2,368 summed transplants in South Carolina. South Carolina is mid-pack on volume (3 centers); 2,368 summed PSR transplants; 1.5% of national state volume; Medical University of South Carolina leads in-state at 2,239; national volume rank #22 of 48.

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Share of national state volume
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In-state volume lead · Medical University of South…

State totals sum program-specific SRTR fields for centers physically located here. Volume and waitlist size are inventory signals, not outcomes advice. Patients often list across state lines.

South Carolina vs all states by combined SRTR waitlist

Where this state's summed organ waitlist sits among every state with SRTR-tracked centers (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)

1,795 19th of 48 higher than 29 of 48 states

States, banded by summed waitlist_size across organ programs

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Source SRTR Program-Specific Reports · 2026-08-14

Where South Carolina's reported transplants come from

What this state directory reports

South Carolina sits mid-pack on summed volume - use the organ table and center cards to open program-level fields.

South Carolina: 3 SRTR-tracked transplant centers · covering 5 organ types · 2,368 reported procedures · 1,795 on combined waitlist · 95.3% volume-weighted 1-year graft survival.

See the per-organ summary table for South Carolina-specific breakdowns and the SRTR/OPTN methodology for source and calculation details.

State Summary by Organ

Organ Centers Waitlist Transplants Avg 1-yr Survival
Kidney 4 1,565 1,837 96.4%
Kidney-Pancreas 2 100 134 97.0%
Liver 1 109 329 92.8%
Lung 1 5 50 95.1%
Pancreas 1 16 18 N/A

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Limits of South Carolina State Totals

A state total aggregates the centers in this directory. It does not describe every person who may receive care in South Carolina or the geographic origin of an organ. Program fields stay organ-specific.

Every figure on PlainTransplant is rendered directly from SRTR Program-Specific Reports data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on SRTR Program-Specific Reports data; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a correction. Data current as of November 2025.