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Table 1 Overview of liver transplant centers per federal states and the number of transplants per million

From: Volume and outcome relation in German liver transplant centers: what lessons can be learned?

Federal State

Population in Million

LTx programs

LTx (Living donor liver transplants excluded)

LTx/Million people/number of centers

2011

2010

2009

Bavaria

12.6

5 (4 in 2009) (Munich (2), Regensburg, Erlangen, Würzburg)

156

166

152

2.7

Baden-Wuertemberg

10.8

2 (Heidelberg, Tübingen)

134

135

145

6.5

Berlin e /Brandenburg f

6.0

1 (Charité Berlin)

93

102

116

17.3

Hesse

6.1

1 (Frankfurt/Main)

29

46

37

6.1

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

1.6

1 (Rostock)

5

5

0

2.1

Lower Saxony b /Bremen a

7.9

2 (Hannover, Göttingen)

112

145

139

8.4

Northrhine Westfalia

17.8

5 (4 in 2009) (Essen, Aachen, Münster, Cologne, Bonn)

260

230

214

2.8

Rhineland-Palatinate

4.0

1 (Mainz)

43

43

42

10.8

Saarland

1.0

1 (Homburg)

15

31

9

18.0

Saxony

4.1

1 (Leipzig)

97

85

79

21.2

Saxony-Anhalt

2.3

1 (Magdeburg)

20

19

7

6.5

Schleswig-Holstein d /Hamburg c

4.6

2 (Hamburg, Kiel)

118

107

125

12.7

Thuringia

2.2

1 (Jena)

49

56

47

23.2

  1. People per number of transplant centers for each individual state/region in Germany. Bremena, having no own medical faculty was added to Lower Saxonyb. Hamburgc and Schleswig Holsteind as well as Berline and Brandenburgf were combined to one major region each.