Transplant success is measured by the actuarial overall one-year graft survival rates.
The Inova Transplant Center performed the Washington, D.C., area's first simultaneous kidney-heart transplant in September of 1992. The program's multidisciplinary team of specialists in transplant surgery, nephrology, cardiology, immunology, endocrinology, radiology, anesthesiology, psychiatry, respiratory therapy, social services and nursing, are available to collaborate in all aspects of the patient's care. Inova Transplant Center has performed 48 living related and 12 living unrelated kidney transplants, with excellent outcomes. The kidney program promotes living donors for kidney transplantation. Inova has initiated laparoscopic nephrectomies for living donation.