Our Vision
"Our Vision is for a bright and active future for all those
involved with or in need of a heart or lung transplant.
We actively encourage organ donation and support the Alfred
Hospital Melbourne, the Transplant Team, patients,
recipients, their families and carers, throughout the
journey."
Professor Trevor Williams with Bronwyn Edwards,the 500 Lung Transplant performed at the Alfred in 2004
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The Heart & Lung Transplant Clinic is celebrating its 21st Birthday in 2010. Regular celebrations are being held through the year...read more
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The Alfred Heart and Lung
Transplant Service
Celebrates its 21st. Year in 2010
Reproduced from 'Alfred Matters' Nov 2009 Edition - Published by The Alfred Hospital
The success of the heart and lung transplant service at The Alfred is due to the collaboration of many staff from administrative, surgical, clinical, nursing, allied health, intensive care and support staff.
The stats: heart and/or lung transplants undertaken by the clinic from December 1988 to November 2009 are:
Double Lung
431
Single lung
668
Heart lung
62
Heart
555
Total 1,716
Some Major Milestones
December 1988
The Alfred is chosen as Victoria's Adult Heart Transplant
Centre
February
1989
The Alfred's Heart Lung Transplant
Servicec commences with a heart transplant, and is now the busiest such
unit in Australia and south East asia
March 1990
The unit performs its forst heart/lung transplant
and its first single lung transplant in October
September 1990
An Alfred team implants the first artifical heart
pump in South East asia and a Thoratec Ventricular Assist devicec as a
bridge to heart transplantation and the first transcontinental heart
retrieval from Perth.
November 1990
A patient is flown from Perth to Melbourne
for transplantation in a specially-pressurised RAAF Hercules plane. This
heralds the unit's first successful retrieval and later, transplantation
of a critically ill patient from across the country.
June 1991
An Alfred team visits another hospital to insert
Extracorporeal Oxygenator (ECMO) into a patient who is then brought back
to The Alfred for transplantation.
November 1992
The first bilateral sequental lung
transplant is performed in 1990, heart and lungs had t be transplanted
together. Since then, with advancements in technology, single and
bilateral lung transplants have sucessfully been performed by the Alfred
December 1994
Trans-Tasmanheart lung procurement (Australia's
first). There have been 38 retrievals from New Zealand.
The Unit achieves highest servicing rate
for lung transplantation in the worls and remains among the top five in
the world in terms of numbers and patient outcomes.
2003
First implant of artifical heart device,
Ventrassist.
2005
The Alfred begins its Paedriatric Lung
Transplant Program. More than a dozen young people have benefited from
this service.
