Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Recipient Age at Tx		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	6,707	8,270	9,828	11,248	12,589	13,809	14,789	15,669	16,043	15,614
	Deaths	510	612	745	779	855	863	983	985	959	816
	Rate	95.9	89.6	91.0	81.7	79.2	71.6	76.2	72.2	70.1	76.8
<1 year	Patients	102	65	82	71	72	48	58	57	42	44
	Deaths	27	17	25	19	16	9	12	8	6	8
	Rate	829.6	758.5	1,052.0	1,019.2	667.2	596.1	619.7	403.8	461.4	1,075.8
1-5 years	Patients	245	340	377	413	442	442	452	444	443	422
	Deaths	27	30	37	28	37	27	28	19	30	13
	Rate	137.3	110.6	118.2	78.4	98.8	69.2	72.7	48.8	81.2	44.9
6-10 years	Patients	72	98	128	181	235	293	363	417	451	421
	Deaths	4	6	8	8	15	8	10	17	11	10
	Rate	68.4	71.5	77.1	51.4	74.7	30.0	30.1	45.0	28.3	34.0
11-17 years	Patients	161	188	240	274	309	362	367	415	455	461
	Deaths	12	12	18	16	27	25	15	16	22	21
	Rate	100.7	79.2	93.5	72.4	105.3	84.6	48.3	46.1	60.3	74.8
18-34 years	Patients	586	691	798	863	948	1,013	1,091	1,108	1,129	1,093
	Deaths	43	59	62	56	60	50	73	82	66	60
	Rate	90.5	103.0	95.1	75.0	74.8	56.8	77.8	86.1	70.9	82.9
35-49 years	Patients	1,644	1,878	2,112	2,304	2,399	2,495	2,460	2,499	2,441	2,263
	Deaths	95	106	137	149	147	139	164	142	115	115
	Rate	72.1	68.0	77.9	76.6	72.0	64.7	77.1	66.2	56.2	77.5
50-64 years	Patients	3,513	4,418	5,220	5,948	6,570	7,082	7,466	7,752	7,726	7,388
	Deaths	258	326	389	409	442	456	472	489	452	373
	Rate	92.0	88.9	88.9	81.4	78.5	73.8	72.4	72.6	68.4	74.3
65+ years	Patients	384	592	870	1,194	1,614	2,074	2,532	2,977	3,356	3,522
	Deaths	44	56	69	94	111	149	209	212	257	216
	Rate	139.1	110.8	89.9	88.1	76.0	79.3	92.0	79.2	87.2	85.5
Unknown	Patients	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Deaths	-	-	*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rate	-	-	*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2001.

The sample includes patients with a new or functioning transplant at any time during the year. The period at risk begins on the later of January 1 or the transplant date and ends on the earlier of December 31, the date of death, or the last date of follow-up. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about computation of death rates.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = Values suppressed due to small N (0 to 9).