The Pediatric Transplant Center at Children's Hospital Boston is one of the most advanced and comprehensive transplant centers in the country. The Center brings together pediatric transplantation programs in heart, kidney, liver, lung, intestine & multivisceral as well as stem cell transplantation. The Center is committed to providing and improving care and access to those in need of organ transplantation, through full-service patient care and support services, as well as groundbreaking research to further the field of transplantation.
Children's Hospital Boston consistently performs more pediatric solid organ transplants than any other center in Massachusetts.
For the past five years, Children's Hospital Boston has performed more pediatric solid organ transplants than the combined number of pediatric transplants performed at all other Massachusetts transplant centers. This is true for patients younger than 5 years of age as well as for patients up to age 17.
Since 2003, nearly 75 percent of all solid organ transplants for patients 17 years or younger in Massachusetts have been performed at Children's Hospital Boston.
In 2007, every patient younger than 5 years old who received a solid organ transplant in Massachusetts was transplanted by a Children's Hospital Boston transplantation specialist.
"The formation of a unified Pediatric Transplant Center has allowed us to pool common resources creating a much more efficient system. In addition, we have been able to take best practices from each program and apply them across the board. This new infrastructure and collaboration will allow us to continue to provide the best possible pediatric transplant care." -Heung Bae Kim, MD
Transplant Program
Total Number of Transplants Performed*
Program Start Date
Stem Cell
1,341
1970
Kidney
623
1971
Liver
174
1984
Heart
207
1986
Lung
63
1990
Intestine & Multivisceral
12
2004
*Through March 2009
Children's Hospital Boston is the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School
The Pediatric Transplant Center at Children's Hospital Boston is one of the most advanced and comprehensive transplant centers in the country. The Center brings together pediatric transplantation programs in heart, kidney, liver, lung, intestine & multivisceral as well as stem cell transplantation. The Center is committed to providing and improving care and access to those in need of organ transplantation, through full-service patient care and support services, as well as groundbreaking research to further the field of transplantation.
