Kidney Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 1/4/1968
• Transplants performed in 2017: 109
• Living donor: 49
• Deceased donor: 60
• Total number of program transplants through 2017: 3,328
• Deceased donor: 1,138
• Living donor: 2,190
• Received medicare approval: 1/1/1977
• Median time to transplant< (12.7 months nationally): 43.5 months
• Waitlist mortality~ (expected .135, national .141): .207
• Transplant rates~ (expected .444, national .519): .062

< Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2012 and 06/30/2017
~ Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2016 and 12/31/2017
* Estimated probability of surviving at one month and one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2015 and 06/30/2017; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2012 and 12/31/2014
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one month and one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2015 and 06/30/2017; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2012 and 12/31/2014
# Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2017 and 12/31/2017

Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available July 31, 2018, released October 9, 2018

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)