Liver Transplant Outcomes
At a Glance
- First transplant: 3/30/89
- Transplants performed in 2019: 115
- Deceased donor: 103
- Living donor: 12
- Total number of program transplants through 2019: 2074
- Deceased donor: 1948
- Living donor: 126
- Received m\Medicare approval: 1/1/1977
Outcomes
- Median time to transplant<: 9.5 months (10.7 months nationally)
- Waitlist mortality~: .134 (expected .102, national .121)
- Transplant rates~: .531 (expected .444, national .578)
< Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2013 and 12/31/2018
~ Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2017 and 06/30/2019
*Estimated probability of surviving at one month and 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 month and 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 Liver Transplantation
Several “firsts” were performed at Henry Ford Hospital:
- First in Michigan to perform a split-liver transplant from a deceased donor (1996)
- First in Michigan to perform an adult-to-adult living-donor liver transplant (2000)
- First in Michigan to perform laparoscopic surgery for living-donor liver transplantation (2008)
- First in U.S. to use sofosbuvir, investigational medication for hepatitis C post-transplant (2012)
- First in Michigan to perform a lung-liver transplant (2013)
- First in Michigan to perform an adult heart-liver transplant (2015)
- First in Michigan to perform a heart-liver-kidney transplant (2018)
