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Statistics

Program established -- September 1990

Average Waiting Time (as of 2005) --

Patients less than 12 years of age - 8 months

Patients age 12 or over - 14 months

Average length of stay (2005) -- 14 days

Average age of recipients:

  • Youngest lung recipient -- 1 month old
  • Youngest heart/lung recipient -- 20 days
  • Longest Surviving Patient -- 21 years (7/86)
  • One Year Survival Rate -- 85%

Number of procedures:

Lung

Heart-Lung

Living Donor

1990

3

0

0

1991

12

0

0

1992

16

0

0

1993

15

4

0

1994

22

1

1

1995

27

3

5

1996

22

2

3

1997

27

0

4

1998

33

0

9

1999

19

0

8

2000

19

2

5

2001

13

1

1

2002

15

1

2

2003

19

2

1

2004

14

0

2

2005

2006

2007

2008

11

12

16

11

1

0

0

 0

0

0

0

 0

Total

*327

17

*41 *included in Lung data

St. Louis Children's Hospital is affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine.

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