Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

	Year
	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	4,268	4,276	4,609	4,798	5,001	5,038	5,083	5,343	5,373	5,488
Mechanism of Death	-	-	-	29	43	36	34	53	41	35
Drowning
Seizure	-	-	-	30	37	34	30	41	28	35
Drug Intoxication	-	-	-	27	36	44	38	57	50	48
Asphyxiation	-	-	-	95	132	137	107	125	139	115
Cardiovascular	-	-	-	116	168	182	203	219	262	260
Gunshot/Stab	-	-	-	633	802	701	659	608	578	576
Blunt Injury	-	-	-	1,083	1,522	1,573	1,613	1,637	1,539	1,628
SIDS	-	-	-	3	3	1	5	5	3	2
Intracranial Hemorrhage/Stroke	-	-	-	1,408	1,990	2,142	2,176	2,381	2,374	2,449
Natural Causes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	34
Other	-	-	-	265	253	158	166	167	163	127
Unknown	-	-	-	3	15	30	52	50	182	179
Different Coding Pre 4/94	4,268	4,276	4,609	1,106	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mechanism of Death (%)	-	-	-	0.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.6%
Drowning
Seizure	-	-	-	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%
Drug Intoxication	-	-	-	0.6%	0.7%	0.9%	0.7%	1.1%	0.9%	0.9%
Asphyxiation	-	-	-	2.0%	2.6%	2.7%	2.1%	2.3%	2.6%	2.1%
Cardiovascular	-	-	-	2.4%	3.4%	3.6%	4.0%	4.1%	4.9%	4.7%
Gunshot/Stab	-	-	-	13.2%	16.0%	13.9%	13.0%	11.4%	10.8%	10.5%
Blunt Injury	-	-	-	22.6%	30.4%	31.2%	31.7%	30.6%	28.6%	29.7%
SIDS	-	-	-	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.0%
Intracranial Hemorrhage/Stroke	-	-	-	29.3%	39.8%	42.5%	42.8%	44.6%	44.2%	44.6%
Natural Causes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3%	0.6%
Other	-	-	-	5.5%	5.1%	3.1%	3.3%	3.1%	3.0%	2.3%
Unknown	-	-	-	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.9%	3.4%	3.3%
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.