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How successful are organ transplants?

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Mostly successful. Organ transplants are quite expensive, so for transplants to be 'worth the cost' there has to be an expectation that transplantation is generally a successful treatment. If transplantation was a fairly useless procedure, it would not be funded due to high cost.

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