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<: 9.0 months
- Pre-transplant mortality~ = .267 (expected .159, national .164)
Patient survival for lung transplant*:
- Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate: 93.0%
- Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate^: 95.41%
- Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate: 79.41%
- Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate^: 72.53%
Graft survival for lung transplant+
- Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 93.0%
- Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 95.02%
- Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 80.59%
- Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 78.01%
< Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2016 and 06/30/2021
~ Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2020-3/03/12/2020 and 06/13/2020-12/31/2021
*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 - 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 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)
