Transplant Program

Important Change to Hospital Visitation Policy

Effective October 19, 2009, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital will no longer allow non-patient visitors or family members under the age of 16 years to visit in the hospital. This policy will be in effect during the height of the flu season, usually lasting until spring, and will be re-evaluated at that time. Learn more about the visitation policy change / Lea más acerca del cambio en las normas de visitas.

The Pediatric Kidney Transplant Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is widely recognized as a world pacesetter for pediatric kidney transplantation on the basis of the program's outstanding results, innovative research, faculty and the referral of complex patients from university medical centers through the United States.

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Launched in 1995, the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has posted one of the highest success rates in the country. To date, the program has performed over 200 pediatric liver transplants — an average of 25 annually — and is currently following over 450 patients, both pre- and posttransplant. Two-thirds of the children transplanted at LPCH are young, under two years old, and small, weighing less than 4.5 pounds.

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Biliary atresia — One of many diseases and conditions that create a need for a liver transplant

The Pediatric Intestinal Transplant Program at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is the only program in Northern California that performs intestinal transplantation (also called small bowel transplant). The program began in 2001 as part of the Pediatric Liver Transplant Program and was built around a team of surgeons representing more than 25 years of transplant experience.

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Hirschsprung's disease — A disease that can cause short bowel syndrome and the need for an intestinal transplant

Other transplant programs at Packard Children's Hospital: