February 14, 2022 – Cleveland Clinic performed 1,039 transplants in 2021, including heart, kidney, liver, intestine and lung transplants. That is up 18 percent from the number of transplants performed at Cleveland Clinic in 2020.
“First and foremost, we want to thank organ donors and their families who make the gift of life possible,” said Charles Miller, M.D., Cleveland Clinic’s enterprise director of transplantation. “The growth of Cleveland Clinic’s global transplant programs comes from a shared mission and culture based on best practices, standardized processes, quality outcomes, innovation, and teamwork at each of our sites.”
Cleveland Clinic’s global transplant programs reached several milestones in 2021:
- Cleveland Clinic’s liver and intestine transplant programs in Ohio were the largest in the United States, according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).
- Cleveland Clinic’s liver transplant program in Ohio completed 210 liver transplants, which is the highest number in the history of the program.
- Cleveland Clinic’s main campus completed 58 living-donor kidney transplants and 33 living-donor liver transplants.
- At Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, all the living-donor surgeries for liver transplant were done laparoscopically. Cleveland Clinic is one of the few hospitals in the world to offer that minimally invasive procedure.
- The transplant center of Cleveland Clinic’s Weston Hospital completed its 1,000th kidney transplant, 200th heart transplant, and started a living-donor liver transplant program.