Heart Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 04/23/85
• Transplants performed in 2021: 26
• Total number of program transplants through 2021: 622
• Number of VADs in 2021: 56
• Received medicare approval: 8/2/1988

Outcomes

• Median time to transplant<: 6.8 months (compared with 4.9 months nationally)
• Pre-transplant mortality~: 4.7 (expected 8.4, national 7.15)
• Mechanical devices at time of transplant#: 76.9%

Patient survival rates for heart transplant:*

• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate: 90.38%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate^: 78.84%

• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate: 96.0%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate^: 87.88%

Graft survival rate for heart transplant:+

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 90.06%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 91.26%

• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 90.06%

< Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2015 and 12/31/2020
~ Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2020 - 03/12/2020 and 06/13/2020 – 12/31/2021
# Patients transplanted between 07/01/2019 and 06/30/2020. Devices include ventricular assist devices (VAD), extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), intraaortic balloon pump (IABP), and total artificial heart (TAH).
*Estimated probability of surviving at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant 01/01/2019 – 3/12/2020 and 6/13/2020 – 6/30/2021; 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 – 3/12/2020 and 6/13/2020 – 6/30/2021; 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 Heart Transplantation

Several “firsts” were performed at Henry Ford Hospital:

• First in Detroit to perform a heart transplant (1985)
• Among the first in the United States to offer the HeartMate® and HeartMate II® ventricular assist devices as a bridge to heart transplantation
• First in Michigan to perform an adult heart-liver transplant (2015)
• First in Detroit to implant a total artificial heart (2017)
• First in Michigan to perform a heart-liver-kidney transplant (2018)