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HEART & VASCULAR
Volumes and outcomes from a sampling of centers in Cleveland Clinic’s Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute
Vitals
and clevelandclinic.org/e15.
Thoracic Surgery in 2018
BUSY: 2,008 thoracic operations performed — our highest annual volume to date
HIGH-QUALITY: The following stats are from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) General Thoracic Surgery Database
(3-year period ending 12/31/2018):
Lobectomy for Lung Cancer Composite Quality Rating
Eligible procedures
Participant score
STS mean participant score
Participant rating
496
98.9%
98.0
(highest)
212
95.1%
89.5%
Esophagectomy Composite Quality Rating
(highest)
670
5.4%
5.9%
Combined Morbidity/Mortality for
Pulmonary Resections
Eligible procedures
Unadjusted rate
Risk-adjusted rate
Standardized incidence ratio
0.77
LESS & LESS INVASIVE:
92
Percentage of lobectomies for stage I lung cancer (N = 113) that used video- or robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
99
Percentage of surgical achalasia cases
(N = 80) treated robotically or with per oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) or laparoscopic Heller myotomy
3
Median length of stay, in days, following lobectomy
Lung Transplantation
in 2018
113
Number of lung transplants performed — the second-highest volume in the U.S.
87 bilateral | 26 single
1,823
Cumulative lung transplants performed at Cleveland Clinic through 2018
348
Number of patients evaluated for lung transplantation
76.3%
71.7%
71.2%
7/1/13-12/31/15
Observed
Expected
National
Report dates
*From the most recent Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data release (7/8/19).
Graft Survival | 3-year survival rates*
Patient Survival | 3-year survival rates*
77.5%
73.0%
73.1%
7/1/13-12/31/15
Observed
Expected
National
Report dates
A 2018 Cardiac Surgery Sampling
Cardiac Reoperations
1,152
Number of adult cardiac reoperative procedures performed
0.6%
Operative mortality for adult cardiac reoperations in STS Adult Cardiac Surgery categories
3.0%
Operative mortality for all adult cardiac reoperations
Congenital Heart Disease
505
Number of congenital
heart surgeries performed,
up 32% from prior year
0.2%
Operative mortality for congenital heart surgeries (vs. 2.9% STS expected rate)
Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy
144
Number of septal myectomies performed
1.4%
Operative mortality for septal myectomies
Eligible procedures
Participant score
STS mean participant score
Participant rating
*From the most recent Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) data release (7/8/19).
(due to inclusion of adult congenital, excluding bicuspid valves and connective tissue disorders)