Liver Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 3/30/89
• Transplants performed in 2021: 102
  
  • Deceased donor: 91
  • Living donor: 2
• Total number of program transplants through 2020: 2167 
  • Deceased donor: 2039
  • Living donor: 128
• Received m\Medicare approval: 1/1/1977

Outcomes

• Median time to transplant<: 8.8 months (9.6 months nationally)
• Pre-transplant mortality~: .116 (expected .102, national .125)
• Transplant rates~: .964 (expected .552, national .754) 
  

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

• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (living donor): 93.33%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 95.24%

• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (living donor): 90.90%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 90.72%

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

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 93.33%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 92.47%

• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 87.85%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 86.51%

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 93.33%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 92.48%

• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 87.55%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 84.45%

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (living donor): 93.33%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 92.33%

• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (living donor): 90.90%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 87.04%

< Patients on the waitlist between 01/01/2016 and 06/30/2021
~ Patients on the waitlist between 07/01/2020-3/12/2020 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 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 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)