Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Level of HLA Mismatch		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
0	Patients	3,196	4,061	5,019	5,794	7,069	8,250	9,299	10,200	10,561	10,224
	Deaths	58	74	96	101	170	189	238	224	236	196
	Rate	22.4	21.5	22.9	20.6	28.9	26.7	29.8	26.0	27.6	30.0
1	Patients	2,006	2,416	2,862	3,251	3,465	3,696	3,992	4,186	4,088	3,754
	Deaths	51	89	62	86	109	86	105	102	106	68
	Rate	30.7	43.7	25.6	31.5	36.4	26.4	30.2	28.6	31.8	28.2
2	Patients	5,362	6,632	7,908	8,825	9,563	10,393	11,152	11,792	11,629	10,890
	Deaths	141	179	217	232	276	294	310	296	289	220
	Rate	32.4	32.1	32.7	31.4	33.7	32.6	31.9	29.7	30.3	31.6
3	Patients	8,796	10,719	12,598	13,969	15,185	16,456	17,731	18,863	18,722	17,652
	Deaths	234	307	365	380	496	492	531	544	515	394
	Rate	32.6	34.0	34.8	32.5	38.3	34.4	34.5	34.3	33.7	34.9
4	Patients	7,762	9,183	10,534	11,534	11,967	12,788	13,675	14,186	13,970	13,264
	Deaths	247	302	325	369	489	464	493	473	448	386
	Rate	38.9	39.0	37.0	38.9	47.8	42.0	41.8	39.5	39.4	45.7
5	Patients	4,947	5,684	6,404	6,914	7,188	7,740	8,495	9,305	9,609	9,577
	Deaths	194	188	216	259	296	299	272	343	289	255
	Rate	48.4	39.1	40.1	45.7	48.8	45.1	37.6	44.5	37.9	42.3
6	Patients	1,627	1,892	2,125	2,234	2,468	2,858	3,272	3,688	3,936	3,977
	Deaths	71	61	75	81	97	127	121	124	124	102
	Rate	53.1	37.9	42.1	43.7	47.9	54.2	44.6	41.5	41.1	41.7
Unknown	Patients	13,632	13,447	13,206	12,713	11,604	10,175	9,213	8,216	7,013	5,939
	Deaths	183	170	265	435	558	418	373	344	263	158
	Rate	13.6	12.9	20.6	35.9	52.1	44.2	44.5	47.8	45.1	41.0

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).