Stanford University Liver Transplantation Program

Patient Outcomes

The current liver transplant team at Stanford University Medical Center was initiated at California Pacific Medical Center in 1988 under the leadership of Dr. Esquivel. The cumulative experience by 1993 resulted in the best 1-year survival rate of all program in the United States.

TRANSPLANT OUTCOMES IN ORDER OF 1-YEAR SURVIVAL 

Source: UNOS 1993 
Center No. Patients
1-year Survival		 %
1. CPMC (SUMC Team)  261  87.5% 
2. Mayo Clinic  199  86.7% 
3. UCSF  194  86.4% 
4. U. Wisconsin  227  84.2% 
5. Baylor U. Med. Ctr  437  81.3% 
6. Mt. Sinai NY  266  80.8% 
7. U. Nebraska  475  79.6% 
8. Childrens Hospital Pittsburgh  289  79.2% 
9. U. Pittsburgh  1429  78.5% 
10. UCLA  559  76.8% 
11. U. Michigan  276  76.3% 
12. U. Chicago  280  64.5% 

 

The Liver Transplant Program at Stanford has continued to achieve excellent survival rates: the annual number of transplants performed from the inception of the Liver Transplant Program is shown in the Table below. The discrepancy between the number of available cadaver donors and growing need for liver transplantation at Stanford, the Bay Area and around the country has resulted in a plateau or decrease in the number of transplants in recent years and prompted the increased use of living donor liver transplantation in children and the development of a new adult-to-adult living donor liver transplant program for adults.

  OLT at
CALIFORNIA
PACIFIC
MEDICAL CENTER 		 OLT at STANFORD
UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL CENTER 
Year Number of Transplants  Number of Transplants
1988  31  NA 
1989  82  NA 
1990  76  NA 
1991  106  2 
1992  110  14 
1993  116  11 
1994  106  13 
1995*  32  47 
1996  NA  77 
1997  NA  67 
1998 NA 78
1999 NA 66
2000 NA 54
2001 NA 78
2002 NA 86

*1995 was the transition year of the CPMC team to Stanford