Press Release: Phoenix Mayo Clinic lauds liver transplant survival rate

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Phoenix Mayo Clinic lauds liver transplant survival rate   

Mayo Clinic’s campus in northeast Phoenix has been identified as having the highest one-year patient survival rate in the U.S. for adult liver transplantation.

The statistics include both deceased and living-donor liver transplants, according to a press release.

Statistics indicate that 98.52 percent of all patients are living one year following their liver transplant -- best in the nation, the release states.

Mayo also leads the nation in three-year living donor liver transplant patient and graft (the organ) survival.

The one-year patient survival rate for living donor liver transplant is 100 percent, and the three-year patient survival is highest in the nation at 96.3 percent.

The statistics were released Dec. 16 by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a national database of statistics related to solid organ transplantation, and included transplants performed between July 1, 2011, and Dec. 31, 2013.

The SRTR data report also conveys that Mayo’s wait-list mortality rate is 6.3 percent, statistically lower than expected compared with the national average of 17.2 percent -- lower than any other any other adult liver transplant program in the country.

With campuses in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, Mayo Clinic has the highest volume of transplants in the U.S., and outcomes that are consistently among the best, the release states.

Mayo Clinic’s campus in Phoenix was one of only three kidney transplant programs in the U.S. with patient survivals higher than expected.

Mayo Clinic is the largest transplant center in Arizona, having performed 384 solid organ transplants in 2013, including 21 hearts, 269 kidneys, 78 livers and 16 pancreas transplants.

Since 2001, Mayo Clinic’s campus in Arizona has performed more than 850 liver transplants, of which 142 were by living donation, making its living donor liver transplant program one of the largest in the Western U.S.