Written Question · S1W-06844 · 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 after being refused by other units in the UK 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
Of the 215 heart transplant operations carried out in Glasgow since the Scottish Heart Transplant Unit opened in 1992, 49 involved hearts which had been retrieved from elsewhere in the UK, which meant they had been refused at least by the retrieval centre.The information on survival is set out in the table below:Survival Period | Six months | One year | Five years
| 31 | 25 | 6
Statistics prepared by the UK Transplant Support Service Authority from the National Transplant Database maintained on behalf of the UK transplant community.The answer to question S1W-6843 explains the basis on which analyses of survival are calculated in the transplantation context. The above analysis is based on transplant survival.A heart would be refused by a unit because it did not have on its waiting list a patient for whom it would be a good match.
| 31 | 25 | 6
Statistics prepared by the UK Transplant Support Service Authority from the National Transplant Database maintained on behalf of the UK transplant community.The answer to question S1W-6843 explains the basis on which analyses of survival are calculated in the transplantation context. The above analysis is based on transplant survival.A heart would be refused by a unit because it did not have on its waiting list a patient for whom it would be a good match.
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-06844 by reference.