Cleveland Clinic surpassed 1,000 organ transplant milestone in 2022
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The Cleveland Clinic reached an institutional milestone in 2022, with 1,050 heart, kidney, liver, intestine and lung transplants, surpassing its previous record high set in 2021, according to a press release.
“We want to thank organ donors and their families who make the gift of life possible,” Charles Miller, MD, enterprise director of transplantation at Cleveland Clinic, said in the release.
As the second largest transplant program in the U.S., Cleveland Clinic performed 726 transplants in 2022, including 215 liver transplants and 320 kidney transplants, the highest numbers in the history of its program. Additionally, Cleveland Clinic is one of the few hospitals worldwide that offer laparoscopic living-donor surgeries for liver transplants.
Among its notable accomplishments in 2022, Cleveland Clinic successfully performed a first-in-the-world full multi-organ transplant to treat a patient with pseudomyxoma peritonei, during which the patient received a liver, stomach, pancreas, duodenum and small intestine.
Cleveland Clinic’s milestone organ transplant numbers contributed to another record-setting announcement from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network: As of September 9, 2022, 1 million solid organ transplants have been performed in the United States.