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Outcome Snapshots in Thoracic Surgery, Lung Transplant and More

Our latest performance data in these areas plus HOCM and pericarditis

Below we share recent volumes and clinical outcomes from a sampling of disciplines and subspecialty areas in Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute: thoracic surgery, lung transplantation, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and pericarditis.

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THORACIC SURGERY

2024 Data Highlights

1,998

Number of general thoracic operations performed

245

Number of robotically assisted thoracic surgery procedures

92%

Proportion of lobectomies for stage I lung cancer (N = 233) that used video/robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

50%

Proportion of thymectomy/thymic mass resections (N = 32) completed robotically

STS Quality Ratings

The following data and ratings are from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) General Thoracic Surgery Database (3-year period ending December 2024):

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LUNG TRANSPLANTATION

2024 Data Highlights

142

Total lung transplants performed, including 3 heart/lung, 5 lung/liver and 1 lung/liver/kidney

32

Lung transplants performed after ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP)

98.3%

30-day survival rate following EVLP lung transplant

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HOCM AND PERICARDITIS

2024 Data Highlights for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM)

5,366

Outpatient visits for HOCM

806

New HOCM patients seen

201

Septal myectomy procedures (with or without other procedures) performed for HOCM

0.0

Observed-to-expected mortality ratio for septal myectomy*

*According to Vizient® Clinical Data Base/Resource Manager. Used by permission of Vizient. All rights reserved.

2024 Data Highlights for Pericarditis

3,339

Patients seen by our Pericardial Diseases Center

478

New patients seen by the Pericardial Diseases Center

320

Pericardial procedures performed

78

Pericardiectomies performed

Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute has a long tradition of reporting volume and outcomes data across its subspecialty areas. For more information like the data reported above, visit clevelandclinic.org/hvtioutcomes and clevelandclinic.org/e15.

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