Table 10.7

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 1997 to 2005

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Intestine Transplantation

Ethnicity/Race Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total Patients 61 66 67 77 111 103 109 145 161
Deaths 26 22 25 21 34 27 20 30 34
Rate 584.7 442.8 515.3 347.9 394.9 325.2 208.1 243.1 244.8
White Patients 44 46 45 47 77 71 86 101 107
Deaths 19 17 15 9 21 16 15 19 25
Rate 590.4 503.4 436.6 225.6 340.7 271.2 196.6 218.4 277.0
African American Patients 11 7 11 12 19 15 9 16 25
Deaths 4 3 7 7 8 6 2 4 4
Rate 479.4 * 1,243.6 1,110.5 595.7 586.1 * 308.9 181.8
Hispanic/Latino Patients 6 12 9 16 13 16 11 20 26
Deaths 3 1 3 4 4 5 2 2 4
Rate * 89.9 * 308.6 411.2 390.7 197.8 105.8 165.1
Asian Patients - 1 1 2 2 - 2 6 2
Deaths - 1 0 1 1 - 1 3 1
Rate - * * * * - * * *
Other/Multi-race Patients - - 1 - - 1 1 2 1
Deaths - - 0 - - 0 0 2 0
Rate - - * - - * * * *


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2007.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = For cohorts with fewer than 10 patients, rates are imprecise and are not reported.

Includes intestine only and intestine with liver and/or pancreas transplants.

Includes patients transplanted during the year and having reported data one-year after transplant.

Time at risk covers the period from transplant date until the date of death or one-year anniversary of the transplant. See Technical Notes for further details.