Since our first kidney transplant in 1973, 6,278 recipients have received transplants at LHSC. Transplants to date (Dec 2020) include:
- kidney = 3,068 (includes 2,371 deceased and 697 living donors)
- liver = 2,198 (includes 2144 deceased and 54 living donors)
- heart = 723
- kidney-pancreas = 111
- pancreas = 9
- liver-kidney = 44
- liver-heart = 3
- liver-bowel = 12
- bowel = 11
- lung = 48
- heart-lung = 47
- multi-visceral = 4
Previously, the Multi-Organ Transplant Program performed lung, heart-lung, and bowel transplants. Although we no longer provide these types of transplants, the information is provided here as a cumulative list of the total transplants done.
The London region continues to have a high organ donation rate (number of donors per million population), well above the Canadian average and rivaling the top countries.
