Kidney Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 01/04/68
• Transplants performed in 2024:137
• Deceased donor: 110
• Living donor: 27
• Total number of program transplants through 2024: 4135
• Deceased donor: 2755
• Living donor: 1380
• Received Medicare approval: 01/01/77

Outcomes

• Median time to transplant<: 33.0 months (compared to 29.3 months nationally)
• Transplant rate~: .274 (expected .279, national .283)
• Pre-transplant mortality~: .035 (expected .048 national .054)

Adult one- and three-year patient survival rates for kidney transplant*:

• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate: 98.14%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate^: 97.01%
• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate: 90.95%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate^: 92.25%
• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (deceased donor): 98.07%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (deceased donor)^: 96.37%
• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (deceased donor): 87.04%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (deceased donor)^: 89.37%
• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (living donor): 98.36%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 98.80%
• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (living donor): 95.82%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 95.90%

Adult one-year and three-year graft survival rates for kidney transplant+:

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 95.49%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 94.36%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 86.35%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 88.25%
• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 95.45%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 93.08%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 84.31%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 84.24%
• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (living donor): 95.65%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 97.86%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (living donor): 89.03%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 93.52%

< Patients on the waitlist between 7/01/2018 and 12/31/2023.
~ Patients on the waitlist between 7/01/2023 and 6/30/2024.
*Estimated probability of surviving at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 7/01/2021 and 12/31/2023; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 1/01/2019 and 03/12/2020, and 06/13/2020 and 06/30/2021.
^ Adjusted for patient and donor characteristics.
+ Estimated probability of surviving with a functioning graft at one year, for patients receiving their first transplant between 7/01/2021 and 12/31/2023; and at three years, for patients receiving their first transplant between 1/01/2019 and 03/12/2020, and 06/13/2020 and 06/30/2021.

Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, Center and OPO-specific Reports, based on data available October 31, 2024, released January 7, 2025

Milestones in Kidney Transplantation

Several “firsts” were performed at Henry Ford Hospital:

• One of the first in Michigan, and one of only two dozen in the country, to perform a cross-racial living kidney transplant (1996)
• One of the first adopters of laparoscopic kidney removal from a living donor
• First in Michigan to perform robotic kidney transplantation (2014), second-largest program in the nation
• First in Michigan to perform a heart-liver-kidney transplant (2018)