Liver Transplants

In some cultures, the liver is associated with courage. In the Gulf South, many patients are finding both courage and leading-edge, life-saving care at the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute.

Ochsner has the only pediatric liver transplant program in the state of Louisiana. To date, our surgeons have performed more than more than 2,000 adult and pediatric liver transplants – 215 last year alone. This makes Ochsner the most experienced liver transplant center in the Gulf South.

Our Medicare-approved liver transplant program is a Center of Excellence for many insurers. What’s more, our patients experience shorter wait times, reduced transplant surgery times and shorter hospital stays than the national average. In addition, our liver transplant survival rate is better than the national average.

Success Rates

Ochsner's liver transplant patients have better one-year survival rates than the national average

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Lengthening Lives with Shorter Wait Times

The most recent median wait time for a liver transplant surgery at Ochsner is two months compared to 16 months nationwide. We work with organ procurement organizations all over the country to increase the number of liver allografts transplanted and to save the lives of patients waiting on our list.

Liver Transplant Waiting List Outcomes Tool

This tool from SRTR (Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients) was created to help patients in need of a liver transplant understand the experiences of patients on a liver transplant program's waiting list.

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With Experience Comes Confidence

Ochsner surgeons take on some of the most difficult cases in liver transplant, including retransplantation, transplant of obese recipients and transplantation of patients with portal vein thrombosis.

What’s more, our surgeons are experienced in split liver transplants, reduced-size liver transplants and living donor liver transplantation in both adults and children.