Outcome Measures for Organ Transplantation
At UC San Diego Health's Center for Transplantation, you receive the highest quality of care in the safest health care environment.
Our patient and transplant organ (graft) survival rates exceed the national average for all programs, placing us among the nation's best transplant centers by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR).
To help you make an informed decision about where to seek an organ transplant, we provide outcome data for each of our transplant programs. This information helps you as a consumer, and it helps us continuously strive to improve the care we provide.
One-Year Transplant Survival Rates from the January 2024 SRTR Report
| Organ | Patient / Graft Survival* | UC San Diego Health Survival Rate | National Survival Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lung | Patient Survival | 91.61% | 88.72% |
| Graft Survival | 91.19% | 88.14% | |
| Heart | Patient Survival | 96.14% | 91.57% |
| Graft Survival | 94.95% | 91.24% | |
| Kidney | Patient Survival | 96.39% | 96.27% |
| Graft Survival | 95.41% | 94.09% | |
| Liver | Patient Survival | 92.91% | 93.95% |
| Graft Survival | 92.40% | 92.02% |
*Graft survival refers to the survival of the transplanted organ.
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