Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

	Year
	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	3,165	3,334	3,764	4,094	4,327	4,463	4,599	4,846	4,933	4,995
Mechanism of Death	-	-	-	23	40	30	31	53	41	32
Drowning
Seizure	-	-	-	26	29	31	25	36	20	33
Drug Intoxication	-	-	-	18	22	38	33	46	42	46
Asphyxiation	-	-	-	84	117	126	103	120	117	102
Cardiovascular	-	-	-	74	129	151	173	198	235	226
Gunshot/Stab	-	-	-	582	718	646	621	564	549	533
Blunt Injury	-	-	-	952	1,304	1,362	1,467	1,470	1,408	1,457
SIDS	-	-	-	6	3	5	6	4	3	8
Intracranial Hemorrhage/Stroke	-	-	-	1,176	1,727	1,907	1,944	2,156	2,196	2,233
Natural Causes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	35
Other	-	-	-	230	224	142	151	155	152	119
Unknown	-	-	-	3	14	25	45	44	156	171
Different Coding Pre 4/94	3,165	3,334	3,764	920	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mechanism of Death (%)	-	-	-	0.6%	0.9%	0.7%	0.7%	1.1%	0.8%	0.6%
Drowning
Seizure	-	-	-	0.6%	0.7%	0.7%	0.5%	0.7%	0.4%	0.7%
Drug Intoxication	-	-	-	0.4%	0.5%	0.9%	0.7%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%
Asphyxiation	-	-	-	2.1%	2.7%	2.8%	2.2%	2.5%	2.4%	2.0%
Cardiovascular	-	-	-	1.8%	3.0%	3.4%	3.8%	4.1%	4.8%	4.5%
Gunshot/Stab	-	-	-	14.2%	16.6%	14.5%	13.5%	11.6%	11.1%	10.7%
Blunt Injury	-	-	-	23.3%	30.1%	30.5%	31.9%	30.3%	28.5%	29.2%
SIDS	-	-	-	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.1%	0.2%
Intracranial Hemorrhage/Stroke	-	-	-	28.7%	39.9%	42.7%	42.3%	44.5%	44.5%	44.7%
Natural Causes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3%	0.7%
Other	-	-	-	5.6%	5.2%	3.2%	3.3%	3.2%	3.1%	2.4%
Unknown	-	-	-	0.1%	0.3%	0.6%	1.0%	0.9%	3.2%	3.4%
Different Coding Pre 4/94	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	22.5%	-	-	-	-	-	-

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.