Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Recipient Age at Tx		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
<1 year	Patients	2	1	2	1	2	2	1	1	8	2
	Deaths	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Rate	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
1-5 years	Patients	290	297	334	301	296	294	321	287	296	284
	Deaths	8	7	8	6	4	2	7	3	5	1
	Rate	36.0	30.2	31.2	25.2	17.1	9.2	28.0	13.6	23.5	6.4
6-10 years	Patients	650	693	715	699	686	710	706	748	709	618
	Deaths	5	6	4	4	6	7	2	3	5	6
	Rate	9.0	9.8	6.5	6.7	10.3	11.4	3.2	4.7	8.6	15.4
11-17 years	Patients	1,429	1,525	1,676	1,843	1,903	1,961	2,020	2,017	1,993	1,776
	Deaths	13	7	16	20	22	17	16	10	20	7
	Rate	10.8	5.3	11.1	13.3	13.7	10.0	9.2	6.0	12.6	6.3
18-34 years	Patients	12,562	13,585	14,442	14,602	14,370	14,322	14,385	14,257	13,412	12,040
	Deaths	161	181	192	157	213	147	157	140	127	85
	Rate	14.9	15.2	15.5	12.7	17.3	11.8	12.7	11.8	12.0	11.4
35-49 years	Patients	18,571	21,190	23,625	25,384	26,538	27,599	28,534	29,175	27,969	25,803
	Deaths	411	473	495	628	754	699	678	611	524	393
	Rate	25.4	25.3	23.9	28.7	32.7	28.8	27.2	24.7	22.8	23.9
50-64 years	Patients	11,816	13,968	16,250	18,029	19,498	21,457	23,945	25,988	26,695	26,007
	Deaths	464	534	667	829	1,018	1,009	1,084	1,074	1,029	771
	Rate	45.4	43.6	47.5	53.6	60.7	53.9	52.4	48.9	47.5	46.2
65+ years	Patients	1,979	2,747	3,585	4,352	5,198	6,000	6,912	7,959	8,445	8,747
	Deaths	116	162	235	298	469	487	498	608	559	516
	Rate	67.9	67.6	75.0	79.3	104.7	93.3	82.4	90.1	80.7	91.1
Unknown	Patients	29	28	27	23	18	11	5	4	1	-
	Deaths	1	0	4	0	4	1	*	*	*	-
	Rate	35.2	0.0	162.3	0.0	283.2	153.5	*	*	*	-

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).