Heart Transplant Outcomes
At a Glance
- First transplant: 04/23/85
- Transplants performed in 2020: 33
- Total number of program transplants through 2020: 596
- Number of VADs in 2020: 40
- Received medicare approval: 8/2/1988
Outcomes
- Median time to transplant<: 9.5 months (compared with 6.9 months nationally)
- Waitlist mortality~: .090 (expected .076, national .086)
- Mechanical devices at time of transplant#: 95.7%
Patient survival rates for heart transplant:*
- Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate: 93.96%
- Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate^: 92.38%
- Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate: 79.59%
- Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate^: 86.57%
Graft survival rate for heart transplant:+
- Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 93.96%
- Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 92.03%
- Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 79.59%
- Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 86.22%
< Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2014 and 12/31/2019
~ Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2018 and 03/12/2020
# Patients transplanted between 07/01/2019 and 06/30/2020. Devices include ventricular assist devices (VAD), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), intraaortic balloon pump (IABP), and total artificial heart (TAH).
*Estimated probability of surviving at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2017 and 12/31/2019; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2015 and 06/30/2017
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2017 and 12/31/2019; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2015 and 06/30/2017
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available October 31, 2020, released January 5, 2021.
Milestones in Heart Transplantation
Several “firsts” were performed at Henry Ford Hospital:
- First in Detroit to perform a heart transplant (1985)
- Among the first in the United States to offer the HeartMate® and HeartMate II® ventricular assist devices as a bridge to heart transplantation
- First in Michigan to perform an adult heart-liver transplant (2015)
- First in Detroit to implant a total artificial heart (2017)
- First in Michigan to perform a heart-liver-kidney transplant (2018)
