Cedars-Sinai Liver Transplant Program Earns Los Angeles County’s Highest One-Year Success Rate
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Newswise â€" LOS ANGELES (Sept. 18, 2012) â€" In 2011, 90 percent of Cedars-Sinai liver transplant patients reached the one-year post-surgery milestone, giving the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center the highest one-year liver transplant survival rate in Los Angeles County.
The data also show that the survival rate for Cedars-Sinai liver transplant patients exceeds the national average of 88.5 percent. The statistics are compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a nonprofit organization administered by the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, which designs and carries out rigorous scientific analyses of data for the transplant community.
“Our program is focused on giving our patients, many of whom are among the most severely ill, the best chance for a new start in life,†said Steven Colquhoun, MD, director of Liver Transplantation. “That focus is why our survival rates consistently, over several years, have out-performed the national average. Achieving a 90 percent one-year survival rate is wonderful but our goal is to give our patients a 100 percent survival rate.â€
Andrew S. Klein, MD, MBA, liver surgeon, director of the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Esther and Mark Schulman Chair of Surgery and Transplant Medicine, said, "Cedars-Sinai has made transplantation medicine an institutional priority. The collaborative efforts of more than 300 doctors, scientists and staff within our Comprehensive Transplant Center have saved lives and improved the quality of life for a rapidly growing number of patients. As a physician, every time I witness a patient regain health after receiving a new heart, liver, kidney, pancreas or lung, I know how fortunate I am to be part of this transformative process.â€
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| Christopher Casassa |
Newswise â€" LOS ANGELES (Sept. 18, 2012) â€" In 2011, 90 percent of Cedars-Sinai liver transplant patients reached the one-year post-surgery milestone, giving the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center the highest one-year liver transplant survival rate in Los Angeles County.
The data also show that the survival rate for Cedars-Sinai liver transplant patients exceeds the national average of 88.5 percent. The statistics are compiled by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, a nonprofit organization administered by the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation, which designs and carries out rigorous scientific analyses of data for the transplant community.
“Our program is focused on giving our patients, many of whom are among the most severely ill, the best chance for a new start in life,†said Steven Colquhoun, MD, director of Liver Transplantation. “That focus is why our survival rates consistently, over several years, have out-performed the national average. Achieving a 90 percent one-year survival rate is wonderful but our goal is to give our patients a 100 percent survival rate.â€
Andrew S. Klein, MD, MBA, liver surgeon, director of the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Esther and Mark Schulman Chair of Surgery and Transplant Medicine, said, "Cedars-Sinai has made transplantation medicine an institutional priority. The collaborative efforts of more than 300 doctors, scientists and staff within our Comprehensive Transplant Center have saved lives and improved the quality of life for a rapidly growing number of patients. As a physician, every time I witness a patient regain health after receiving a new heart, liver, kidney, pancreas or lung, I know how fortunate I am to be part of this transformative process.â€
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