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Highlights and milestones
Heart transplant program
Program inception – December 1990.
Availability of extracorporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and state of the art pulsatile mechanical support.
Linked to one of the top ten pediatric heart programs in the nation, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin's Herma Heart Center.
Recent actuarial survival analysis demonstrates excellent results with most patients having no limitations to normal childhood activities.
Youngest patient – 7 days old. Longest survivor is 12 years old and thriving.
Pioneered the systematic use of the virtual crossmatch for sensitized pediatric heart transplant recipients.
In 2006, The Pediatric Heart Failure program was developed to promote early recognition and optimize care of children with advanced heart failure who may need transplantation services.
Liver transplant program
- Program inception: May 1988.
- First successful liver and lung transplant in the United States in 1995.
- Patient mortality and graft survival better than national average.
- Youngest patient – 3 weeks old.
- Successful transplants for Maple Syrup Urine Disease and other metabolic diseases.
Kidney transplant program
- Program inception: December 1986.
- Fifty percent of transplants are living related; successful transplant program for non-living related donors.
- Developing protocols that help patients with complex immunologic barriers due to HLA compatibility.
- First successful pediatric heart-kidney transplant in the Midwest. Only the 18 in the country.
- Youngest patient – 14 months old.
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