St. Louis Children's Hospital Heart Transplant Program Statistics
Program established
January 1986
Average waiting time (2003)
25 days
Average length of stay
11 days
Youngest recipient
3 days
Longest surviving recipient
24 years (7/86)
One-year survival rate
90%
Year Procedures 1986-1989 9 1990-2000 161 2001 9 2002 18 2003 9 2004 11 2005 15 2006 20 2007 25 2008 27 2009 23 2010 25 2011 18 Total 371