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Pediatric Transplant Center

 Pediatric Transplant Center
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Why Choose Us? 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 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.

"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 Programs

Total Number of Transplants Performed*

Program Start Date

Stem Cell

1,269

1970

Kidney

602

1971

Liver

164

1984

Heart

189

1986

Lung

60

1990

Intestine & Multivisceral

8

2004

*Through April 2008
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