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Pediatric Transplant Center

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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.

  • No. 1 in the Western United States in organ transplant volume in patients 18 years and younger, and No. 3 nationwide.
  • Stanford Medicine Children’s Health cares for some of the youngest, smallest, and most acute patients in the country. In 2020, four patients younger than 1 year were transplanted, with the youngest being just 5 months old.
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The Pediatric Transplant Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is a national transplant leader with more than 25 years of experience performing pediatric organ transplants.

  • Heart Transplant:
    • The world’s first pediatric heart transplant was performed at Stanford more than 35 years ago. Since that time, the organization has performed more than 500 pediatric heart transplants.
    • Stanford Medicine Children’s Health has performed the highest volume of pediatric heart transplants in California for nine straight years.
    • In addition to performing 24 heart transplants in 2020, the team implanted 18 ventricular assist devices (VAD), which help extend patients’ lives until they receive a donor heart. Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is one of the highest-volume pediatric VAD programs in the United States.

Lung Transplant and Heart-Lung Transplant: The first pediatric heart-lung transplant was performed at Stanford in 1988, and since then, the organization has performed more than 85 pediatric lung and heart-lung transplants.

  • Liver and Intestinal Transplant: 
    • Stanford Medicine Children’s Health has performed more than 800 pediatric liver and intestinal transplants since the inception of the program in 1995.
    • The median liver transplant waiting time for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health patients is 2.7 months, compared with the national median of 10.1 months.
  • Kidney Transplant:
    • Doctors at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health were the first in the world to perform an innovative approach to kidney transplantation that prevents the need to take immune-suppressing drugs over the long term.
    • Over the past five years, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health has performed more pediatric kidney transplants than any other U.S. program.
    • One-year and three-year survival rates for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health kidney transplant patients are 100 percent.