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Table 13.6d
Immunosuppression Use: Antirejection Treatment from Transplant
to One Year Post Transplant, 1991 to 2000
Recipients with Heart-Lung Transplants

  Year of Transplant
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Transplants 51 48 60 71 69 39 61 47 51 48
Tx with Antirejection Treatments 23 20 25 29 35 9 12 25 18 16
Antibodies Category Usage 8.7% 10.0% 20.0% 17.2% 8.6% 11.1% 16.7% 20.0% 5.6% 18.8%
ALG 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 3.4% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
ATG 0.0% 0.0% 12.0% 6.9% 5.7% 11.1% 8.3% 12.0% 0.0% 6.3%
NRATG/NRATS 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.0% 0.0% 0.0%
OKT3 8.7% 10.0% 12.0% 6.9% 2.9% 0.0% 8.3% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Thymoglobulin 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 4.0% 5.6% 0.0%
Zenapax 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 12.5%
Corticosteroids Category Usage 100.0% 95.0% 80.0% 86.2% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 92.0% 94.4% 93.8%
Prednisone 26.1% 15.0% 28.0% 20.7% 20.0% 11.1% 25.0% 16.0% 16.7% 18.8%
Methylprednisolone 87.0% 80.0% 76.0% 69.0% 88.6% 100.0% 75.0% 80.0% 77.8% 81.3%

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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