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Table 11.6c
Immunosuppression Use: Maintenance Between Discharge
and One Year Post Transplant, 1991 to 2000
Recipients with Heart Transplants

  Year of Transplant
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Transplants 2,126 2,171 2,297 2,340 2,361 2,342 2,294 2,347 2,187 2,197
Tx With Follow-up Immunosuppression Info 1,773 1,832 1,907 1,909 1,895 1,914 1,878 1,961 1,743 1,754
Corticosteroids Category Usage 94.0% 95.7% 95.9% 90.2% 90.7% 89.0% 87.7% 90.3% 93.1% 92.8%
Prednisone 94.0% 95.7% 95.9% 90.0% 90.6% 88.5% 87.3% 89.9% 92.8% 92.5%
Methylprednisolone 0.2% 0.4% 2.5% 1.0% 1.3% 1.3% 1.5% 3.2% 4.8% 4.4%
Cyclosporine Category Usage 97.5% 99.0% 98.2% 89.3% 82.2% 85.0% 82.9% 78.4% 81.9% 77.7%
Cyclosporin 97.3% 98.9% 97.2% 82.1% 1.6% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Sandimmmune 0.2% 0.6% 2.7% 7.1% 42.6% 19.5% 12.4% 10.4% 8.0% 5.0%
Neoral 0.0% 0.1% 0.3% 0.7% 42.1% 66.2% 71.3% 68.7% 74.5% 69.2%
Gengraf 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 5.2%
Eon 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1%
Tacrolimus Category Usage 2.4% 1.1% 1.8% 3.6% 10.1% 15.1% 17.7% 24.5% 26.9% 30.0%
FK506 2.4% 1.1% 1.8% 3.6% 10.1% 15.1% 17.7% 24.5% 26.9% 30.0%
Antimetabolites Category Usage 95.8% 96.5% 95.4% 89.7% 88.1% 90.3% 90.0% 90.3% 86.2% 90.9%
Azathioprine 95.5% 96.5% 94.9% 87.8% 76.2% 61.7% 42.7% 34.3% 28.5% 19.0%
Mycophenolate mofetil 0.6% 0.2% 0.6% 2.9% 16.9% 32.5% 51.2% 64.2% 66.9% 78.9%
Other Category Usage 1.6% 2.0% 1.8% 1.8% 2.0% 1.0% 1.0% 1.3% 3.2% 5.3%
Rapamycin 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.4% 2.5% 4.8%
Cytoxan 1.6% 2.0% 1.8% 1.7% 2.0% 1.0% 0.9% 1.0% 0.7% 0.7%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2002.
Individual drug percentages will not necessarily add up to the drug category percentages, as patients may be prescribed more than one drug within the same category.


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