Jay Lackritz
Forum Leader Username: Jay_ny
Post Number: 601 Registered: 01-2007
| Posted on Monday, July 28, 2014 - 11:21 am: |
|
I just received the summer newsletter from the Columbia University Department of Surgery and it mentions that the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) has released its latest data on lung transplantation (for the years 2011-2013). In Columbia's lung transplant program, 1-year patient survival and 1-year graft survival were both higher than expected at 94% (National Expected 1 year survival rate is 86%). The three year model shows data from 2008 through 2010, and Columbia's survival rate is over 75.4% vs. a national average of 68.2%. Note that death rates include all deaths, not just ones due to the surgery. Columbia's median time to lung transplant was 5.2 months, and 25% of our patients were able to receive a lung transplant within six weeks of being placed on the organ donation wait list. U.S. average median time to transplant is shorter at 4 months and 25% were able to receive a transplant in 1 month, though the Eastern Region wait times are longer. If you would like to look up the numbers for a lung transplant program in yours or any center in the U.S., you can find them here: http://www.srtr.org/csr/current/Centers/TransplantCenters.aspx?organcode=LU Note that the data is less reliable the smaller the transplant center (ahhhhh...... statistics). Columbia performed 62 lung transplants in 2013 and 67 in 2012. The largest lung transplant centers in the US (in Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Houston) each do around 100 lung transplants annually (http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/latestData/stateData.asp?type=center)
|