Heart Transplant Volumes and Outcomes
Parents of potential organ transplant patients often ask us about the number of pediatric heart transplants we do and our transplant survival rates. We refer to these statistics as our transplant volumes and outcomes.
Volumes
See the number of transplants done here in the last five years:
- 2023 - 15 transplants
- 2022 - 13 transplants
- 2021 - 17 transplants
- 2020 - 11 transplants
- 2019 - 12 transplants
- 2018 - 10 transplants
- 2017 - 7 transplants
Outcomes
A key concept to understand is graft survival vs. patient survival. Graft survival can sometimes be different from patient survival. For example, a patient’s organ might stop functioning, but the patient survives and has another transplant.
Heart Transplant Graft Survival
(< 17 years old)
It is possible for three-year survival rates to exceed one-year survival because different groups of patients are followed for each time period.
Heart Transplant Patient Survival
(< 17 years old)
It is possible for three-year survival rates to exceed one-year survival because different groups of patients are followed for each time period.
1 month and 1 year data time period: 1/1/2020-3/12/2020 and 6/13/2020-6/30/2022 (excludes transplants performed 3/13/2020-6/12/2020)
3 years data time period: 7/1/2017-12/31/2019
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients