Kidney Transplant Outcomes
At a Glance
- First transplant: 01/04/68
- Transplants performed in 2021: 81
- Deceased donor: 56
- Living donor: 25
- Total number of program transplants through 2020: 3754
- Deceased donor: 2459
- Living donor: 1295
- Received Medicare approval: 01/01/77
Outcomes
- Median time to transplant<: 35.2 months (compared to 35.8 months nationally)
- Transplant rate~: .230 (expected .230, national .222)
- Pre-transplant mortality~: .060 (expected .063, national .048)
Adult one- and three-year patient survival rates for kidney transplant*:
- Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate: 95.63%
- Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate^: 96.99%
- Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate: 95.31%
- Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate^: 94.31%
- Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (deceased donor): 93.04%
- Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (deceased donor)^: 95.68%
- Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (deceased donor): 94.24%
- Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (deceased donor)^: 92.05%
- Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (living donor): 98.90%
- Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 98.65%
- Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (living donor): 96.58%
- Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 96.99%
Adult one-year and three-year graft survival rates for kidney transplant+:
- Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 94.54%
- Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 95.07%
- Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 93.57%
- Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 90.32%
- Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 92.80%
- Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 93.09%
- Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 92.36%
- Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 87.12%
- Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (living donor): 96.84%
- Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 97.68%
- Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (living donor): 95.12%
- Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 94.40%
< Patients on the waitlist between 1/1/2020-3/12/2020 and 6/13/2020-12/31/2021
~ Patients on the waitlist between 1/1/2020-3/12/2020 and 6/13/2020-12/31/2021
*Estimated probability of surviving at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2019-03/12/2020 and 06/13/2020-06/30/2021; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2016 and 12/31/2018
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2019-03/12/2020 and 06/13/2020-06/30/2021; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2016 and 12/31/2018
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available April 30, 2022, released July 6, 2022.
Milestones in Kidney Transplantation
Several “firsts” were performed at Henry Ford Hospital:
- One of the first in Michigan, and one of only two dozen in the country, to perform a cross-racial living kidney transplant (1996)
- One of the first adopters of laparoscopic kidney removal from a living donor
- First in Michigan to perform robotic kidney transplantation (2014), second-largest program in the nation
- First in Michigan to perform a heart-liver-kidney transplant (2018)
