Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Primary Diagnosis		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
Coronary Artery Disease	Patients	3,151	3,777	4,459	5,069	5,690	6,253	6,670	7,022	7,110	6,932
	Deaths	238	267	324	363	399	419	507	491	476	363
	Rate	92.8	84.2	86.5	84.3	81.9	77.1	87.7	81.0	78.3	76.3
Cardiomyopathy	Patients	2,631	3,370	4,053	4,741	5,348	5,895	6,326	6,736	6,984	6,810
	Deaths	172	230	285	286	326	332	357	381	365	342
	Rate	82.9	82.8	84.3	71.2	70.9	64.2	64.2	64.4	61.4	74.0
Congenital Heart Disease	Patients	420	510	618	694	784	842	935	1,002	1,017	986
	Deaths	53	52	62	54	74	48	60	55	52	47
	Rate	182.3	134.8	129.3	94.2	113.5	66.1	74.7	63.1	60.5	71.3
Retransplant/Graft Failure	Patients	136	174	209	218	241	259	284	324	352	339
	Deaths	23	32	43	31	32	30	25	35	37	33
	Rate	242.3	251.0	280.1	183.7	168.0	140.0	107.3	136.4	133.1	154.9
Valvular Heart Disease	Patients	282	323	358	397	404	442	458	474	469	446
	Deaths	22	23	20	32	16	24	25	18	24	25
	Rate	95.4	85.4	63.2	92.1	43.3	60.5	60.3	42.0	58.2	81.8
Other	Patients	84	114	128	127	120	118	115	109	107	98
	Deaths	1	8	11	13	7	10	8	5	5	5
	Rate	15.6	81.4	99.7	112.5	65.1	94.7	78.6	50.1	52.4	71.1
Unknown	Patients	3	2	3	2	2	-	1	2	4	3
	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).