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Pediatric Transplant Center

The Pediatric Transplant Center atÌýLucile Packard Children’s Hospital StanfordÌýis a national transplant volume leader with more than 25 years of experience performing pediatric organ transplants.

We excel at handling the toughest challenges. We provide high-touch care to high acuity cases for children needing all kinds of transplants, includingÌýheart,Ìýlung,Ìýliver,Ìýkidney,ÌýintestineÌýand combined transplants.

  • No. 1 in the Western United States in organ transplant volume in patients 18 years and younger, and No. 3 nationwide.
  • Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health cares for some of the youngest, smallest, and most acute patients in the country. In 2020, four patients younger than 1 year were transplanted, with the youngest being just 5 months old.
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The Pediatric Transplant Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is a national transplant leader with more than 30 years of experience performing pediatric organ transplants.

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Transplant Outcomes Report

Our approach has achieved some of the best outcomes in the country for the more than 2,000 transplants we have conducted since our founding. Many of these transplants were for the youngest, smallest, and most acutely ill organ-failure patients.Ìý

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  • Heart Transplant:
    • The world’s first pediatric heart transplant was performed at Stanford more than 35 years ago. Since that time, the organization has performed more than 500 pediatric heart transplants.
    • Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health has performed the highest volume ofÌýpediatric heart transplantsÌýin California for nine straight years.
    • In addition to performing 24 heart transplants in 2020, the team implanted 18Ìýventricular assist devices (VAD), which help extend patients’ lives until they receive a donor heart. Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health is one of the highest-volumeÌýpediatric VADÌýprograms in the United States.

Lung TransplantÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýHeart-Lung Transplant: The first pediatric heart-lung transplant was performed at Stanford in 1988, and since then, the organization has performed more than 85 pediatric lung and heart-lung transplants.

  • LiverÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýIntestinal Transplant:Ìý
    • Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ÌýChildren’s Health has performed more than 800 pediatric liver and intestinal transplants since the inception of the program in 1995.
    • The median liver transplant waiting time for Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health patients is 2.7 months, compared with the national median of 10.1 months.
  • Kidney Transplant:
    • Doctors at Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health were the first in the world to perform an innovative approach to kidney transplantation that prevents the need to take immune-suppressing drugs over the long term.
    • Over the past five years, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health has performed more pediatric kidney transplants than any other U.S. program.
    • One-year and three-year survival rates for Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Children’s Health kidney transplant patients are 100 percent.