Statistics/Outcomes

Quick Facts (As of March 2005)

• 2,200 patients followed,
• 600 newly diagnosed CHF patients per year,
• 500 adults followed with congenital heart disease
• 30 mechanical ventricular assist devices implanted
• 30-40 adult congenital heart disease patients referred per year for re-operation for repair or palliation of congenital anomalies
• 420 primary heart transplants performed
• 20 heart transplants performed per year
• 10 combined heart/kidney transplants performed
• Currently 55 patients on Emory's heart transplant waiting list
  

The Emory Center for Heart Failure Therapy and Transplantation has one of the most impressive patient and graft survival rates in the nation. Over 90% of our adult patients survive one year or more following their heart transplant.

The following charts provide average survival rates at Emory University Hospital for adult patients. Adult Heart Transplant-Total Actuarial Patient and Graft Survival

PATIENT SURVIVAL

*Statistics based on available UNOS data.

GRAFT SURVIVAL

*Statistics based on available UNOS data.

Transplant Center