Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Recipient Age at Tx		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	7,265	9,157	11,396	13,594	15,799	17,992	20,052	22,005	23,107	23,117
	Deaths	695	698	810	840	917	1,026	1,034	1,060	1,199	1,048
	Rate	132.9	98.5	89.9	76.6	70.9	68.0	61.4	58.6	65.0	70.2
<1 year	Patients	58	55	40	56	33	45	59	69	70	65
	Deaths	10	10	7	5	4	6	6	13	5	9
	Rate	874.2	822.4	1,077.4	442.0	662.3	601.1	606.9	1,030.7	474.8	860.3
1-5 years	Patients	756	855	914	955	924	922	934	892	864	827
	Deaths	57	69	63	74	53	45	59	46	45	36
	Rate	99.8	102.1	87.2	100.7	71.5	60.4	80.9	65.7	67.6	72.7
6-10 years	Patients	243	321	455	588	718	842	935	954	899	834
	Deaths	8	13	15	17	6	11	16	20	20	17
	Rate	40.2	47.3	38.0	32.2	9.2	14.0	18.8	23.8	25.4	30.8
11-17 years	Patients	261	333	413	477	536	595	670	763	818	835
	Deaths	16	13	20	14	19	21	23	16	22	13
	Rate	81.2	48.0	58.0	34.5	41.5	41.2	39.9	25.0	32.4	23.8
18-34 years	Patients	840	1,005	1,143	1,287	1,374	1,453	1,606	1,634	1,602	1,480
	Deaths	68	63	71	77	60	50	71	57	58	51
	Rate	110.2	80.5	76.7	73.8	51.8	39.7	53.2	42.1	45.3	53.2
35-49 years	Patients	2,360	2,954	3,591	4,267	5,020	5,639	6,069	6,437	6,540	6,271
	Deaths	200	210	226	232	273	310	261	299	319	271
	Rate	116.4	92.5	80.7	68.6	68.4	67.0	52.5	57.9	63.3	68.7
50-64 years	Patients	2,365	3,062	4,004	4,846	5,742	6,639	7,545	8,655	9,336	9,624
	Deaths	287	263	318	335	390	423	423	456	527	466
	Rate	174.0	112.0	101.5	85.5	83.0	76.3	66.1	63.9	70.7	74.6
65+ years	Patients	382	572	836	1,118	1,452	1,857	2,234	2,601	2,978	3,181
	Deaths	49	57	90	86	112	160	175	153	203	185
	Rate	183.8	127.2	132.9	91.0	91.2	100.2	89.5	68.4	80.3	85.5

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).