Cleveland Clinic performed 1,232 organ transplants in 2023 – including heart, intestine, kidney, liver, lung, and pancreas transplants from deceased donors – as well as living donor transplantation for kidney and liver. That is up 17% from the number of organ transplants performed at Cleveland Clinic in 2022.
Cleveland Clinic’s transplant sites are located at its main campus in Cleveland, Ohio; Weston Hospital in Florida; and Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates.
With innovative approaches and teamwork, Cleveland Clinic’s global transplant programs continue to grow to save more lives.
- The liver transplant programs in Ohio and Florida use new technology to preserve and assess donor organs before transplantation. Normothermic machine perfusion preserves the donor organ in a warm, oxygen-and nutrient-rich environment. As a result of using this organ preservation technology, more donated organs can be assessed and safely preserved, resulting in more usable organs and less time waiting to receive a lifesaving transplant.
- Cleveland Clinic’s Organ Repair Centers in Ohio and Florida perfuse some of the donated organs so they can undergo viability assessment prior to transplantation.
- Living donation makes more transplants possible at Cleveland Clinic’s global transplant programs.
- Colleagues from Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and Cleveland Clinic in the U.S. conducted three robot-assisted kidney transplants for the first time in the UAE.
- To provide additional treatment options for patients, Cleveland Clinic researchers showed that patients who need both heart surgery and a liver transplant can benefit from a lifesaving combined treatment.
- To continue to improve organ allocation, Cleveland Clinic researchers developed a new model for prioritizing lung transplant candidates.
