Heart Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 04/23/85
• Transplants performed in 2018: 28
• Total number of program transplants through 2018: 539
• Number of VADs in 2018: 51
• Received medicare approval: 8/2/1988
• Median time to transplant<: 10.3 months (compared with 8.4 months nationally)
• Waitlist mortality~: .11 (expected .096, national .101)
• Mechanical devices at time of transplant#: 75.00%

< # Patients transplanted between 07/01/2017-06/30/2018. Devices include ventricular assist devices (VAD), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), intraaortic balloon pump (IABP), and total artificial heart (TAH).
< Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2012 and 12/31/2017
~ Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2016 and 06/30/2018
*Estimated probability of surviving at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2015 and 12/31/2017; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2013 and 06/30/2015
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2015 and 12/31/2017; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2013 and 06/30/2015

Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available October 31, 2018, released January 7, 2019.

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)