Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

	Year
	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	4,526	4,520	4,861	5,100	5,360	5,418	5,479	5,798	5,810	5,985
Mechanism of Death	-	-	-	31	47	38	34	63	47	38
Drowning
Seizure	-	-	-	33	43	41	33	46	32	39
Drug Intoxication	-	-	-	29	45	57	46	69	62	67
Asphyxiation	-	-	-	107	153	156	127	150	153	134
Cardiovascular	-	-	-	123	193	208	234	258	297	315
Gunshot/Stab	-	-	-	658	836	739	689	634	606	601
Blunt Injury	-	-	-	1,147	1,586	1,640	1,679	1,703	1,610	1,700
SIDS	-	-	-	8	9	5	12	8	3	8
Intracranial Hemorrhage/Stroke	-	-	-	1,498	2,143	2,323	2,379	2,613	2,601	2,706
Natural Causes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	41
Other	-	-	-	287	290	180	193	201	195	144
Unknown	-	-	-	3	15	31	53	53	189	192
Different Coding Pre 4/94	4,526	4,520	4,861	1,176	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mechanism of Death (%)	-	-	-	0.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.6%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%
Drowning
Seizure	-	-	-	0.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.6%	0.8%	0.6%	0.7%
Drug Intoxication	-	-	-	0.6%	0.8%	1.1%	0.8%	1.2%	1.1%	1.1%
Asphyxiation	-	-	-	2.1%	2.9%	2.9%	2.3%	2.6%	2.6%	2.2%
Cardiovascular	-	-	-	2.4%	3.6%	3.8%	4.3%	4.4%	5.1%	5.3%
Gunshot/Stab	-	-	-	12.9%	15.6%	13.6%	12.6%	10.9%	10.4%	10.0%
Blunt Injury	-	-	-	22.5%	29.6%	30.3%	30.6%	29.4%	27.7%	28.4%
SIDS	-	-	-	0.2%	0.2%	0.1%	0.2%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%
Intracranial Hemorrhage/Stroke	-	-	-	29.4%	40.0%	42.9%	43.4%	45.1%	44.8%	45.2%
Natural Causes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3%	0.7%
Other	-	-	-	5.6%	5.4%	3.3%	3.5%	3.5%	3.4%	2.4%
Unknown	-	-	-	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.9%	3.3%	3.2%
Different Coding Pre 4/94	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	23.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

(%) = Percentages are calculated based on totals including missing and unknown cases.

(-) = None in category.

Includes donors of organs recovered for transplant and not used, as well as those transplanted.

Form changes on April 1, 1994 changed the way Cause of Death, Circumstance of Death, and Mechanism of Death were collected.