Our Transplant Services
We're Setting Records at University of Colorado Hospital
Patients in need of organ transplants typically inhabit a special kind of limbo. They dearly need things that are in short supply around the world: healthy organs, and effective programs that guide them through the process of getting them safely and securely.
Transplant volumes on the rise
One way to tell if a program is good is by how many patients it sees.
Experience breeds expertise. UCH's Transplant Center is the busiest in the region, and one of the busiest in the nation.
In 2010, we performed 280 transplants, up from 277 in 2009, and 244 in 2008.
We achieved this success without sacrificing quality of care: our outcomes continue to be among the best in the nation.
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UCH: Pioneers in Transplant
There have been many historic transplant stories at University of Colorado Hospital and by the physicians and researchers of the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine.
Among them:
- First-ever liver transplant in the world. (1963)
- First successful double lung transplant on a cystic fibrosis patient in Colorado.
- Colorado ’s first solitary pancreas transplant to eliminate diabetes in a patient.
- First in utero stem cell transplant to save a fetus with a rare blood disorder.
- Opened a liver cell bank – one of the first in the country – to further research into new liver transplant procedures.
- First living-related liver transplant in Colorado .
- First living-related liver transplant on an adult with fulminant liver failure.
- Region’s first liver transplant from a non-related donor.
- One of the first in the nation to perform living-donor transplant surgery.
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Our Superior Outcomes
Our patients’ outcomes in kidney, liver, heart, lung and other solid-organ transplants are among the best you can get.
University of Colorado Hospital lung transplant patients live longer than the national 5-year average.
See our transplant outcomes data page
Our Transplant Specialties
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Did You Know?
- In Colorado and Wyoming, over 2,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant.
- Nationally, over 107,000 people are waiting for lifesaving organ transplants.
- A single donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation.
- About 18 people in the U.S. die each day from the lack of available organ and tissue donation.
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