After the evaluation, eligible patients are placed on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waiting list. Generally, a heart can become available from a deceased donor within a few months, or it can take years. The MUSC Transplant Center’s wait times for an available heart are among the shortest in the nation. (Find out more about our wait time data at US Transplant.) UNOS has a pre-determined process for allocating hearts from deceased donors to eligible transplant candidates. How quickly a patient receives a heart depends on how sick the patient is. MUSC physicians do not decide who is next to receive a heart from the transplant waiting list. | 
