Clinical Outcomes

Number of Transplants
The following table summarizes the number of transplants performed by organ at Northwestern Memorial Hospital per year.

Transplants by Organ 2005 2006
Kidney 266 277
Living Donor Kidney 136 152
Simultaneous Pancreas/Kidney 25
21
Pancreas 19 11
Liver 110 134
Living Donor Liver 14 29

Patient Survival
The following table compares the number of first year patient survival by organ at Northwestern Memorial Hospital to the number of first year patient survival by organ nationally.

  1 Yr Patient Survival**
Transplants by Organ Northwestern National
Kidney 95.8 95.9
Living Donor Kidney 98.6 97.8
Simultaneous Pancreas/Kidney 95.0 94.8
Pancreas 93.3 96.2
Liver 89.0 86.5
Living Donor Liver 87.6 86.3

** 1 Yr Patient Survival Source - SRTR

Contact

  • Contact the Kovler Organ Transplantation Center.