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This Annual Data Report of the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) is the twenty-seventh annual report and is based on data pertaining to the period 2007-2018. The title OPTN/SRTR 2018 Annual Data Report reflects the fact that the report covers themost recent complete year of transplants, those performed in 2017. This publication was developed for the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Healthcare Systems Bureau, Division of Transplantation, by the SRTR contractor, the Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI), and the OPTN contractor, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), under contracts HHSH25020150009C and 234-2005-37011C, respectively. As the SRTR contractor, HHRI, through its Chronic Disease Research Group (CDRG), determined which data to present, conducted the required analyses, created the figures and tables, and drafted the text. As the OPTN contractor, UNOS reviewed the draft report and contributed to the content. This report is available at srtr.transplant.hrsa.gov. Individual chapters, as well as the report as a whole, may be downloaded.