Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Blood Type		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	47,328	54,034	60,656	65,234	68,509	72,356	76,829	80,436	79,528	75,277
	Deaths	1,179	1,370	1,621	1,943	2,491	2,369	2,443	2,450	2,270	1,779
	Rate	28.8	28.9	30.8	34.8	42.2	37.5	36.6	36.1	35.2	37.1
O	Patients	16,297	19,574	22,722	25,028	26,885	29,185	31,502	33,455	33,495	32,221
	Deaths	442	566	615	686	876	913	1,002	957	872	734
	Rate	32.8	33.9	32.1	32.7	38.2	36.1	36.8	34.0	32.1	35.8
A	Patients	13,686	16,275	18,967	20,899	22,659	24,755	26,917	28,733	28,873	27,710
	Deaths	405	456	529	592	762	768	799	862	862	676
	Rate	35.9	33.0	33.2	33.7	39.5	36.0	34.5	35.7	36.9	38.3
B	Patients	4,170	4,945	5,768	6,317	6,778	7,319	8,063	8,655	8,815	8,407
	Deaths	126	152	170	175	237	237	250	234	244	187
	Rate	36.6	36.2	35.2	33.3	41.4	37.5	36.4	32.5	34.7	35.4
AB	Patients	1,535	1,858	2,118	2,372	2,560	2,788	3,019	3,234	3,297	3,180
	Deaths	42	50	60	87	103	82	85	111	95	63
	Rate	33.8	32.3	33.7	44.9	48.3	34.4	32.9	41.4	36.4	31.7
Unknown	Patients	11,640	11,382	11,081	10,618	9,627	8,309	7,328	6,359	5,048	3,759
	Deaths	164	146	247	403	513	369	307	286	197	119
	Rate	14.3	13.0	22.8	39.7	57.6	47.3	45.1	50.2	45.0	46.7

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).