Progress Report Division & Section Reports
Cardiac Transplantation
Yoshifumi Naka, MD, PhD
Cardiac Transplantation
We are pleased to welcome you to the website for the Heart Transplantation Program at Columbia University Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.
We sincerely believe the care Columbia University Medical Center provides our heart transplant patients is second to none. We measure this excellence not only in clinical outcomes–how many patients in our program are successfully transplanted and return to productive lifestyles–but also in their quality of life during the entire transplant process, as candidates, in-patients and as follow-up care recipients.
We have transplanted over 1,300 hearts, with a one-year survival of 89% and a 3 year survival of 86%, both much higher than expected survival.
Approximately 2,300 heart transplants are now performed each year in more than 150 heart transplant centers in the United States. The surgeons and cardiologists of Columbia University Medical Center have a long and distinguished history of advancing "standards of care" and the survival rates of our patients by using innovative surgical techniques, by applying our basic scientific research in immunosuppression to the clinical setting, and by inventing and perfecting life-sustaining cardiac assist devices that prolong life while waiting for organ availability.
In October 2002, we celebrated the 25th Anniversary of heart transplantation at Columbia at our special Silver Lining event.
Heart Transplantation Program
www.hearttransplant.com
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