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Liver Transplant Program Volumes and Outcomes

Highlights of the Liver Transplant Program

  • Shortest wait time in pediatric liver transplant
  • First dual organ transplant completed
    • Heart/liver en bloc
    • Liver/kidney en block
  • NIH-funded site for the study of acute liver failure
  • Industry funded for the study of immune cell gene expression in liver transplant rejection
  • One of four programs in the country with two dually trained transplant surgeons in pediatric surgery and transplant surgery

Liver transplant volumes

The number of pediatric liver transplants performed at Children’s Mercy between 2019 and 2022. Note that the program was inactive in 2020 and 2021.


 

Liver transplant outcomes

(SRTR January 2024)

Liver Transplant Outcomes: 90-day Graft survival: 100% Children's Mercy; 95.27% expected; 94.54% national average. One-year conditional graft survival: 100% Children's Mercy; 97.86% expected; 98.00% national average.

Children’s Mercy Kansas City has outstanding pediatric liver transplant patient and graft survival while caring for complex patients at all ages. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipient (SRTR) tracks outcome metrics including graft and patient survival. Access the SRTR outcomes.


 

Liver transplant recipient age

OPTN January 2024

The age of patients who received pediatric liver transplants at  Children’s Mercy between 2018 and 2022. Note: Program inactive in 2021 and 2022.


 

2022 liver transplants by diagnosis

UNOS April 2023

The diagnoses of patients who received pediatric liver transplants at Children’s Mercy in 2022.

Questions?

For questions, please feel free to speak with your child’s transplant team or contact the Transplant Center at (816) 302-3088.