Transplant survival rates

The success of a transplant programme can be measured by how long patients survive after transplant.  This is often depicted as a graph of survival over time, or quoted as the percentage of patients surviving at particular time after the operation.  The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation collects information from all heart/lung transplant centres in the world and produces survival figures which are freely available from its website Registry of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 

Overall, when compared with this data, the survival figures for Freeman patients are better.  In particular, we have highlighted below three areas where our expertise yields excellent results:

 

Paediatric heart transplantation 

 

Survival to	5 years	10 years
International Society Data	62%	57%
Freeman patients	86%	78%

Nearly four out of five children survive 10 years after a heart transplant at Freeman Hospital, compared with less than three children out of five, on average, in the rest of the world.

Bilateral Lung Transplantation

Survival to	5 years	10 years
International Society Data	53%	33%
Freeman patients	61%	48%

Almost half of patients who have a double lung transplant at Freeman Hospital survive 10 years, compared with a third of patients on average in the rest of the world.

Lung transplantation for Cystic Fibrosis

Survival to	5 years	10 years
International Society Data	54%	34%
Freeman patients	62%	52%

Similarly, in patients who receive a lung transplant for cystic fibrosis, over half will survive for over 10 years at Freeman Hospital compared with a third of patients in the rest of the world.