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VANDERBILT â The Vanderbilt Transplant Center performed a record number of solid organ transplants in fiscal year 2021 â 637 life-saving procedures among its adult and pediatric programs â despite occurring entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The total number of transplants from the period between July 2020 and the end of June 2021, are up 10% from the 578 transplants during the same period in fiscal year 2020.
In fiscal year 2021, Vanderbilt University Medical Center performed 590 adult transplants and 47 pediatric transplants, records for both age groups.
âThis outstanding, sustained effort is the result of the collaborative work of a huge team of uncompromising professionals,â said Seth Karp, MD, H. William Scott Jr. Professor, chair of the Section of Surgical Sciences and director of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center.