Heart Transplant Outcomes
At a Glance
- First transplant: 04/23/85
- Transplants performed in 2019: 24
- Total number of program transplants through 2019: 563
- Number of VADs in 2019: 51
- Received medicare approval: 8/2/1988
Outcomes
- Median time to transplant<: 10.6 months (compared with 8.0 months nationally)
- Waitlist mortality~: .141 (expected .091, national .086)
- Mechanical devices at time of transplant#: 76.9%
< Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2013 and 12/31/2018
~ Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2017 and 06/30/2019
# Patients transplanted between 07/01/2018 and 06/30/2019. 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 07/01/2016 and 12/31/2018; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2014 and 06/30/2016
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2016 and 12/31/2018; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2014 and 06/30/2016
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available October 31, 2019, released January 7, 2020.
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)