Pediatric Transplant Center

• 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.