Respiratory Institute Outcomes
Lung and Heart/Lung Transplantation
Lung and Heart/Lung Transplantation
Lung Transplant: Volume
2016 – 2020
Cleveland Clinic is one of the busiest lung transplant centers in the world, performing 593 lung transplants from 2016 through 2020. Cleveland Clinic surgeons performed 118 lung transplant procedures in 2020.
Source: Cleveland Clinic Transplant Center database
Lung Transplant: Primary Disease of Recipients
Transplants Done July 1, 2019 — June 30, 2020
Cleveland Clinic surgeons perform lung transplant procedures for patients with a variety of lung diseases. In this reporting period (July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020), the majority (55.1%) of the 107 lung recipients had idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension.
COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, January 5, 2021. srtr.org
Lung Transplant: 1-Month and 1-Year Survival
July 1, 2017 — December 31, 2019
The 1-year graft and patient survival rates at Cleveland Clinic were slightly below the expected level.
SRTR = Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, January 5, 2021. srtr.org
Lung Transplant: Wait Time
Candidates on the Wait-List July 1, 2014 — December 31, 2019
The median wait time for a lung transplant at Cleveland Clinic was 2.9 months for the candidates wait-listed from July 1, 2014 through December 31, 2019. This is slightly higher than the average wait time at other centers in the region and throughout the US. Most patients at Cleveland Clinic receive a transplant very quickly, but many have conditions that make it difficult to find suitable organs, thereby increasing the median wait time.
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, January 5, 2021. srtr.org
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Lung Transplant: Wait-List Mortality Rate
July 1, 2018 — March 12, 2020
Cleveland Clinic has an aggressive posture toward evaluating and listing extremely sick and high-risk candidates. Cleveland Clinic evaluates donor organs and utilizes advanced strategies such as Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) to make more donor lungs available for transplant. The wait-list mortality rate during this period was higher than expected.
Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, January 5, 2021. srtr.org