Heart Transplant Outcomes
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has performed more than 200 heart transplants since the inception of our Heart-Lung Transplant Program in 1990. The program performs heart transplants, heart-lung transplants and lung transplants (see lung transplant outcomes).
Recent heart transplant experience:
- 2015: 10 transplants
- 2014: 11 transplants
- 2013: 17 transplants
- 2012: 10 transplants
- 2011: 10 transplants
- 2010: 11 transplants
- 2009: 14 transplants
- 2008: 6 transplants
A heart transplant is performed when a heart defect can’t be treated by any other medical or surgical means. It is reserved for those individuals with a high risk of dying from heart disease.