Vital Stats in Thoracic Surgery, Lung Transplant and Congenital Heart Surgery (Infographic)
A dynamic infographic shares our latest volume and outcomes data across these three key surgical areas.
Vital Stats in Thoracic Surgery, Lung Transplant and Congenital Heart Surgery (Infographic)
Catch our latest volume and outcomes data
Below we share recent volumes and clinical outcomes from a sampling of centers in Cleveland Clinic’s Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute.
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THORACIC SURGERY
2021 Data Highlights
1,916 Number of general thoracic operations
1.2% Mortality for general thoracic operations, vs. 2.3% expected
1.6% 3-day mortality after esophagectomy for cancer (N = 197), vs. 4.0% Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) predicted mortality
Use of Minimally Invasive Procedures in 2021
284 Number of robotically assisted thoracic surgery procedures
95% Proportion of all lobectomies for stage I lung cancer (N = 124) that used video- or robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
79% Proportion of thymectomies or thymic mass resections completed robotically (N = 43)
STS Quality Ratings
The following stats are from the STS General Thoracic Surgery Database (3-year period ending December 2021):
LUNG TRANSPLANTATION
2021 Data Highlights
96 Number of lung transplants performed
30 Number of lung transplants after ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP)
96.7% 30-day survival rate following EVLP lung transplant
4 Number of multiorgan lung transplant cases (3 lung/liver, 1 heart/lung)
PEDIATRIC & ADULT CONGENITAL HEART SURGERY*
Cleveland Clinic’s Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute has a long-established tradition of reporting volume and outcomes data across its various subspecialty areas. For more information like the data reported above, visit clevelandclinic.org/hvtioutcomes and clevelandclinic.org/e15.