Lung Transplant Outcomes
At a Glance
- First transplant: 10/20/94
- Transplants performed in 2020: 22
- Total number of program transplants through 2020: 355
- Received Medicare approval: 2/1/1999
Outcomes
- Median time to transplant<: 7.4 months
- Waitlist mortality~ = .152 (expected .182, national .151)
Patient survival for lung transplant*:
- Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate: 88.73%
- Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate^: 86.94%
- Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate: 81.97%
- Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate^: 74.57%
Graft survival for lung transplant+
- Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 87.72%
- Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 84.77%
- Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 80.43%
- Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 73.20%
< Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2014 and 12/31/2019
~ Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2018 and 03/12/2020
*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 Lung Transplantation
Several “firsts” were performed at Henry Ford Hospital:
- Detroit’s first lung transplant performed at Henry Ford Hospital (1994)
- First in Michigan to use donation after cardiac death for lung transplant (2007)
- First in Michigan to perform a lung-liver transplant (2013)
