Pediatric Transplant Center

The Pediatric Transplant Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is a national transplant volume leader with more than 25 years of experience performing pediatric organ transplants.

We excel at handling the toughest challenges. We provide high-touch care to high acuity cases for children needing all kinds of transplants, including heart, lung, liver, kidney, intestine and combined transplants.

Heart: Number 1 for pediatric heart transplant volume in California
Lung and Heart-Lung: Only pediatric lung transplant program on the U.S. West Coast
Liver and Intestine: Highest volume of pediatric liver transplants on the U.S. West Coast.
Kidney: We have performed more pediatric kidney transplants than any other program on the U.S. West Coast for the last 10 years.

The four-pound fighter

An ambulance rushed Dane to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. It was all hands on deck as he was dying quickly from bleeding internally. At four-pounds he was the smallest transplant the team had ever done.

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