Liver Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 3/30/89
• Transplants performed in 2023: 125
  
  • Deceased donor: 117
  • Living donor: 8
• Total number of program transplants through 2023: 2489 
  • Deceased donor: 2343
  • Living donor: 146
• Received m\Medicare approval: 1/1/1977

Outcomes

• Median time to transplant<: 6.3 months (6.6 months nationally)
• Pre-transplant mortality~: .149 (expected .120, national .126)
• Transplant rates~: 1.066 (expected .936, national .911)
  

One-year and three-year patient survival rates for liver transplant:*

• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (living donor): 83.33%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 95.91%
• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (living donor): 85.71%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 92.67%

One-year and three-year graft survival rates for liver transplant+:

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 92.10%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 93.11%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 91.65%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 86.22%
• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 92,83%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 93.07%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 91.96%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 86.11%
• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (living donor): 83.33%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 95.53%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (living donor): 85.71%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 87.39%

< Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2018 and 06/30/2023
*Estimated probability of surviving at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2021 and 06/30/2023; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2018 and 03/12/2020, and 06/13/2020 and 12/31/2020.
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 01/01/2021 and 06/30/2023 and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 07/01/2018 - 03/12/2020, and 06/13/2020 - 12/31/2020.

Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available April 30, 2024, released July 9, 2024.

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)