Offering world-class surgeons, shorter wait times and better outcomes
Transplant Services Available at These Locations
Transplant
Indiana University Health Transplant is the largest, most comprehensive center of its kind in the region and the 4th largest by volume in the United States. With a link to the Indiana University School of Medicine, the center combines the clinical expertise, research and teaching excellence of IU Health Methodist Hospital, IU Health University Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health in Indianapolis, Indiana to provide quality, state-of-the-art care to patients.
In addition to unparalleled care and experience, the IU Health Transplant team has successfully pioneered many procedures that we and other medical providers across the country use today. These discoveries have made our transplant program stronger and our patients' lives more complete.
Organ Transplant Services
Our transplant center is one of only a few health systems certified by Medicare to perform all of the following:
- Multivisceral transplants
- Intestinal transplants
- Pancreas transplants
- Liver transplants
- Kidney transplants
- Lung transplants
- Heart transplants
We routinely welcome outside groups, such as the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), who facilitated an IU Health Transplant visit for hospital administrators throughout the country, highlighting IU Health Transplant as a national model.
Heart
Families seek our expertise for children and adults with congenital heart disease and congestive heart failure. We have a long history of improving lives using ventricular assist devices and heart transplantation. Our pre- and post-transplant coordinators have among the longest longevity in the business motivated by the patient families they support.
Heart Transplant at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Heart Transplant at IU Health Methodist Hospital
Intestine/Multivisceral
For the second consecutive year, IU Health Transplant has the country’s largest Intestine/Multivisceral program by volume. Since 2003, more than 100 of these transplants have saved people from life-threatening diseases such as neuroendocrine and desmoid tumors and those requiring total parental nutrition (TPN).
Intestine Transplant at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Multiviseral Transplant at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Intestine/Multiviseral Transplant at IU Health University Hospital
Kidney
Experience transplanting children and adults with high-risk complications. Learn more about our kidney-only transplants for people with kidney failure and our combined kidney-pancreas transplants for patients with type 1 diabetes and significant kidney disease.
Kidney Transplant at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Liver
We provide a full spectrum of liver disease and transplant services for adults and children. Patients referred to us not only have shorter wait times but also enjoy better outcomes.
Liver Transplant at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health
Lung
Lung transplant recipients have a wide variety of underlying disorders. We have a long history of transplanting patients who are referred here for the most complex disorders because of our aggressive treatment and expertise.
Lung Transplant at IU Health Methodist Hospital
Pancreas
For four consecutive years, IU Health Transplant has the No. 1 largest Pancreas program by volume. Learn more about how people with type 1 diabetes have benefitted from this program and are no longer diabetic.
One of the largest centers in the country, IU Health Transplant clinicians work around the clock to transplant organs of the abdomen, heart and lung. Our center is one of a few centers in the county Medicare-approved to perform all solid organ transplants, including the highly specialized multivisceral transplant, which involves transplanting some or all abdominal organs.
Our medical and surgical directors have worked together for years to develop new surgical and medical protocols. The result of this hard work and research can be seen in our graft and patient survival outcomes. Our transplant physicians are world-renowned and their opinions highly sought by other transplant program staff who contact us to consult about organ quality and surgical questions. We maintain one of the largest databases tracking patients’ pre-transplant health and the organs’ health markers. This benefits our patients because we’re able to match the right organs to the right individuals.
With Indiana University School of Medicine partnership, IU Health Transplant physicians offer highly advanced research to ensure our patients have positive outcomes. The single biggest problem associated with solid organ transplantation is the shortage of suitable organs. More than 100,000 people are waiting for an organ. We are one of a few centers doing Xenotransplant research in hopes of one day offering those awaiting liver transplant a bridge to transplant until a suitable organ is available. We are also engaged in immunosuppression research, drugs that restrict the immune system and prevent rejection. Our physicians are able to treat highly sensitized patients who would normally be ineligible to receive a transplant through our kidney desensitization program.