Liver Transplant Outcomes

At a Glance

• First transplant: 3/30/89
• Transplants performed in 2024: 121
  
  • Deceased donor: 112
  • Living donor: 9
• Total number of program transplants through 2024: 2610 
  • Deceased donor: 2455
  • Living donor: 155
• Received m\Medicare approval: 1/1/1977

Outcomes

• Median time to transplant<: 5.6 months (6.0 months nationally)
• Pre-transplant mortality~: .140 (expected .107, national .124)
• Transplant rates~: 1.004 (expected .931, national 1.000)
  

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

• Henry Ford one-year patient survival rate (living donor): 88.89%
• Henry Ford one-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 96.23%
• Henry Ford three-year patient survival rate (living donor): 86.22%
• Henry Ford three-year expected patient survival rate (living donor)^: 88.65%

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

• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate: 93.21%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate^: 93.38%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate: 84.73%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate^: 86.42%
• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 93.54%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 93.34%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (deceased donor): 84.54%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (deceased donor)^: 86.28%
• Henry Ford one-year graft survival rate (living donor): 88.89%
• Henry Ford one-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 93.76%
• Henry Ford three-year graft survival rate (living donor): 91.67%
• Henry Ford three-year expected graft survival rate (living donor)^: 88.40%

< Patients on the waitlist between 7/01/2022 and 06/30/2024
*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 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)