Our Pediatric Transplant Program is one of the oldest and most successful children's transplant programs in the world. Few pediatric transplant centers offer the range of transplant services, along with the years of experience and success, that have helped forge the reputation of the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital. We offer pediatric heart, liver, kidney and intestinal transplant to infants and children of all ages.

University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital has the highest reported success rates in kidney transplantation in infants and very young children. Our success rates for living donor transplants are also among the highest in the nation. Living-donor kidney and liver transplantation provide patients with another option for transplant. Living donor transplant has several advantages over a transplant from a deceased donor – the most important being a shorter waiting time for an organ.

We continue to pursue cutting-edge technology with research on living-donor kidney, liver and multi-organ transplantation. University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital and University of Minnesota Medical Center are the core teaching hospitals of University of Minnesota Medical School. We were the nation’s first officially approved transplant fellow training program. More transplant surgeons have trained here than at any other center in the United States. As part of the nation’s leading academic medical center, research is part of our mission. This allows for leading-edge protocols, surgical techniques, technology, organ donation and recovery techniques and post-transplant care.