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At New Children’s Hospital, we perform 15–25 transplantations annually for children aged 0–18 years. In 2021, we performed 23 transplantations. More than 50% of all transplants in children are kidney transplants. The next most frequent procedures performed are liver and heart transplants. The survival rates of Finnish transplant children are at a high international level. Approximately 95% of children who receive a kidney transplant are alive 10–15 years after transplant surgery, and the rate is approximately 70% for children’s heart and liver transplantations. In Finland, the long-term performance of children’s kidney transplants is the best, according to the latest report by the ESPN/ERA-EDTA (European Registry for Children on Renal Replacement Therapy). The pediatric kidney and organ transplantation unit has been a member of the European Network for Rare Kidney Diseases, ERKNET, since 2017 and a member of the pediatric transplant network, TransplantChild, since 2022. ## Our treatment results ### Annual number of pediatric transplants by organ group ---  ### Causes of permanent failure and re-transplantation --- **Causes** **Kidney (n=15/213; 7%)** **Liver** **(n=12/102; 11.8%)** **Heart** **(n=3/70; 4.3%)** Transplant does not start working - 1 (8.5%) 1 (33%) Acute rejection - - - Chronic rejection 10 (67%) 2 (16.5%) 2 (66%) Vascular complication 1 (6.5%) 5 (41.5%) - Biliary tract complication - 2 (16.5) - Relapse of the underlying disease 1 (6.5%) 1 (8.5%) - Noncompliance 3 (20%) - - Not identified - 1 (8.5%) - Between 2000 and 2021, we conducted 385 kidney, liver and heart transplants, of which 30 (7.8%) failed. The causes of irreversible failures and re-transplants are comparable to the results of international registries. ### The 10-year prognosis for children who have received an organ transplant by organ group compared internationally --- **Organ** **New Children’s Hospital** **Scandiatransplant** **European Liver Transplantation Register (ELTR)** **International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)** Kidney 88.5% 85% - - Liver 67.3% - 66% - Heart 72.4% - - 65% The 10-year graft function prognosis for transplants of children who have received an organ transplant in Finland by organ group compared to international register data. ### The 10-year prognosis of children who have received organ transplants in Finland (1986–2021) by organ group ---  ### Causes of death of patients who received a transplant as a child --- The main causes of death in patients who received a transplant as a child were infections, cardiovascular deaths, and malignancies ## Specialists ### [ Timo Jahnukainen ](/en/person/timo-jahnukainen) Chief Physician Ward Taika, New Children's Hospital Updated: 03.02.2023 Print this page