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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)
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