Transplant Center

Mayo Clinic is the largest integrated transplant provider in the United States. Mayo Clinic has preeminent adult and pediatric transplant programs, offering heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, hand, face, and blood and bone marrow transplant services. Mayo doctors performed their first clinical transplant in 1963. Since then, Mayo's efforts to continually improve and expand organ transplantation have placed Mayo at the leading edge of clinical and basic transplant research worldwide. Research activities in the Transplant Center at Mayo Clinic have contributed significantly to the current successful outcomes of organ transplantation.

Specialized transplant care at Mayo includes:

• Innovation in surgical techniques
• Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
• Living-donor transplantation
• Multidisciplinary team approach
• Multiorgan transplants
• Paired donation
• Pediatric Transplant Services
• Reconstructive transplant surgery
• Regenerative medicine

Reputation and rankings

U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals

U.S. News & World Report has named Mayo Clinic to its annual list of "Best Hospitals" for more than 30 years. Hospitals named to the Honor Roll are part of a small group recognized for breadth of excellence.

To be included on the Honor Roll, a medical center must rank at or near the top in at least six of the 15 medical specialties included in the rankings. Mayo Clinic consistently ranks high for gastroenterology, heart care, cancer, orthopedics, diabetes and endocrinology, neurology and neurosurgery, urology and other specialties.

U.S. News & World Report rankings are based on factors such as mortality index, patient safety, nurse staffing and Magnet status, patient services, and technology. Current U.S. News & World Report transplant-related rankings include:

• Cancer
• Cardiology and heart care
• Diabetes and endocrinology
• Ear, nose and throat
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Pulmonology
• Rehabilitation
• Urology