100 %
97.2 %
100 %
92.4 %
HEART INSTITUTE
CARDIOLOGY AND HEART SURGERY
Heart Failure and Heart Transplant Program
LEADERSHIP: D. Dunbar Ivy, MD, Chief, Pediatric Cardiology Selby’ s Chair, Pediatric Cardiology
James Jaggers, MD, Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery The Barton-Elliman Chair, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Eduardo da Cruz, MD, Associate Medical Director, Heart Institute
Almost 30 years old, our pediatric heart transplant program is one of the largest and most successful programs in the country.
Our one-year heart transplant outcomes are among the best in the nation according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients( SRTR).
Pediatric(< 18 years old) heart transplant survival rate
100 %
30-day survival( N = 46)
Children ' s Colorado
97.2 %
30-day survival
SRTR
THREE
Board-certified congenital cardiothoracic surgeons
FIVE
Transplant cardiologists
For one-year survival, only patients with complete one-year follow-up are included( transplants performed January 1, 2013 to June 30, 2017).
100 %
1-year survival( N = 40)
92.4 %
1-year survival
higher is better
READ MORE ABOUT CARDIOLOGY AND HEART SURGERY:“ The Future of Single Ventricle Care Will Be Engineered,” p. 34 |
Median time to transplant
( for candidates January 1, 2011 to June 30, 2016)
2.4 months
Children ' s Colorado
6.8 months
Regional facilities
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8.6 months
National facilities
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lower is better |
“ The Cannula that Saved Kylie,” p. 52 |
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