The Transplant Center at University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview is nationally recognized for its contribution to pediatric transplantation.

We have a long history of research devoted to improving results for pediatric patients and have performed more pediatric kidney transplants with greater success than any other program in the world. We specialize in dialyzing infants and small children as they await kidney transplant. Doctors here developed an innovative technique for transplanting adult kidneys in infants. Our 1-year patient and graft survival rate is more than 95 percent.

University of Minnesota Physicians pioneered pediatric kidney transplantation; they performed the first infant heart transplant in Minnesota on a 6-month-old and have since performed a heart transplant on a 1-month-old child. Founded in 1981, the pediatric heart transplant program at the University of Minnesota is the oldest in the state and the only program that regularly serves infants. Our team of experts at University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview specializes in stabilizing children pre-transplant, performing heart transplants and providing excellent follow-up medical care.

Liver transplantation was introduced at the University of Minnesota in 1964. Since then, University of Minnesota Physicians has performed more than 250 pediatric liver transplants at University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview.

In 1997, surgeons began performing adult-to-child, living related-donor segmental-liver transplants. Use of living donors and procedures in which segments of a single liver are transplanted into two recipients have earned the program a reputation of leadership in the field. In addition, pediatric intestinal and lung transplants using living donors are also regularly performed here with success.

Conditions We Treat

• Heart

-Arrythmias
-Atrial Fibrillation
-Ventricular Fibrillation
-Cardiomyopathy
-Dilated Cardiomyopathy
-Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
-Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
-Congenital Aortic Valve Anomalies
-Congestive Heart Failure
-Coronary Artery Disease
-End-stage Heart Disease
-Hypoplastic Ventricles
-Myocarditis
-Pulmonary Atresia
-Pulmonary Embolism
-Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
-Unbalanced Atrioventricular Canal Defects

• Liver

-Alpha-1-antitrypsin Deficiency
-Amanita Mushroom Poisoning
-Arteriohepatic Dysplasia (Alagille Syndrome)
-Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH)
-Caroli’s Disease
-Congenital Hepatic Fibrosis (CHF)
-Crigler-Naijar Syndrome
-Cystic Fibrosis
-Drug-induced Liver Failure
-Erythropoietic Protoporphyria (EPP)
-Extrahepatic Biliary Atresia (EHBA)
-Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)
-Gaucher’s Disease
-Glycogen Storage Disease, Type 1
-Glycogen Storage Disease, Type 4
-Hemophilia A and B
-Hepatic Adenomatosis
-Hepatic Hemangioendotheliomas
-Hepatoblastoma
-Hepatocellular Carcinoma
-Langerhan’s Cell Histiocytosis (Histiocytosis X)
-Neonatal Hepatitis
-Niemann-Pick Disease
-Ornithine Transcarbamylase (OTC) Deficiency
-Polycystic Liver Disease
-Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
-Protein C Deficiency
-Type 1 Hyperoxaluria
-Tyrosinemia (Neonatal Tyosinemia)
-Urea Cycle Enzyme Deficiency
-Viral Hepatitis
-Wilson’s Disease

• Kidney

-End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Treatments We Offer

• Heart Transplantation
• Kidney Transplantation
• Liver Transplantation