Table 1.6

Reported Deaths and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk

Waiting List, 1999 to 2008

Organ Type		Year
Organ Type		1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
All Organs	Patients	93,037	100,174	106,471	111,020	113,820	119,396	124,430	130,153	135,367	139,917
	Deaths	6,759	6,500	7,118	7,181	7,112	7,339	7,228	7,271	7,076	7,182
	Rate	119.2	104.4	108.9	111.6	105.4	104.6	100.3	96.0	89.5	87.4
Heart-Lung	Patients	347	328	299	290	260	260	224	207	182	157
	Deaths	55	46	42	42	20	29	28	21	22	15
	Rate	242.9	223.8	203.6	210.0	109.1	162.8	181.6	153.5	195.4	154.9
Heart	Patients	7,448	7,190	7,143	6,910	6,520	6,199	5,878	5,831	5,767	5,912
	Deaths	804	686	719	631	587	526	470	440	377	441
	Rate	199.1	177.3	183.5	167.0	167.0	160.1	156.9	157.1	143.8	169.9
Intestine	Patients	212	247	320	349	356	393	451	485	497	463
	Deaths	47	27	44	53	47	56	58	54	49	28
	Rate	495.9	254.3	318.8	322.5	302.4	326.5	328.2	265.9	232.8	129.6
Kidney-Pancreas	Patients	3,334	3,849	3,961	3,948	3,895	3,946	3,994	3,966	3,775	3,695
	Deaths	169	198	227	223	208	223	208	233	211	183
	Rate	93.8	89.4	95.5	93.5	89.8	95.9	88.2	98.8	93.6	82.4
Kidney	Patients	57,058	60,540	64,162	68,168	71,793	76,806	82,336	88,685	94,622	99,750
	Deaths	3,318	3,125	3,368	3,731	3,858	4,040	4,143	4,454	4,456	4,638
	Rate	84.0	73.7	73.6	76.8	75.0	73.5	70.6	70.4	65.0	63.3
Liver	Patients	20,965	23,390	25,517	26,131	25,677	26,330	26,585	26,695	26,503	26,407
	Deaths	2,018	2,019	2,325	2,161	2,094	2,164	2,141	1,991	1,822	1,782
	Rate	159.1	136.1	137.4	129.6	128.5	131.1	129.9	122.2	113.7	113.6
Lung	Patients	4,868	5,141	5,374	5,399	5,549	5,650	5,269	4,798	4,676	4,119
	Deaths	599	519	532	529	489	512	398	300	317	266
	Rate	190.6	152.8	149.2	145.1	131.6	135.1	115.6	103.5	125.9	128.0
Pancreas After Kidney	Patients	468	769	1,025	1,217	1,326	1,492	1,433	1,402	1,349	1,223
	Deaths	5	10	16	18	16	26	24	30	22	21
	Rate	25.1	26.4	28.2	24.9	19.0	27.7	24.5	30.9	23.7	23.8
Pancreas Transplant Alone	Patients	482	498	616	665	702	791	850	897	957	966
	Deaths	9	7	19	13	19	25	33	26	37	30
	Rate	35.4	25.6	54.9	33.6	46.0	53.2	65.5	47.7	63.6	53.1

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

Patients alive on the waiting list at any time during the year are counted. Period at risk begins

the later of January 1 or waiting list registration and ends on the earlier of December 31, date of death, or date of removal for other reasons. Please see Technical Notes for further details about death rate computation.

Patients who were waiting for multiple organs in a given year are counted in each organ section, but only once in the "All Organs" section.