Written Question · S1W-06843 · Session 1
How many heart transplant operations have been carried out at the Scottish Cardio-Pulmonary Transplant Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary sinc…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many heart transplant operations have been carried out at the Scottish Cardio-Pulmonary Transplant Unit at Glasgow Royal Infirmary since it opened and how many patients survived for a period of (a) six months; (b) one year; (c) one to five years after their operation.
The answer
215 heart transplants have been carried out at the Scottish Heart Transplant Unit since it opened in 1992. Information on survival times is set out in the table below:Survival period | Six months | One year | Five years
| 159 | 132 | 43
Statistics prepared by the UK Transplant Support Service Authority from the National Transplant Database maintained on behalf of the UK transplant community.As the answer to question S1W-6845 shows, the results are in line with outcomes in the UK generally.Analyses of survival in the context of transplantation relate to one of three events: graft survival, patient survival or transplant survival, which covers either graft failure or patient death. The analysis above is based on transplant survival.
| 159 | 132 | 43
Statistics prepared by the UK Transplant Support Service Authority from the National Transplant Database maintained on behalf of the UK transplant community.As the answer to question S1W-6845 shows, the results are in line with outcomes in the UK generally.Analyses of survival in the context of transplantation relate to one of three events: graft survival, patient survival or transplant survival, which covers either graft failure or patient death. The analysis above is based on transplant survival.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-06843 by reference.