Table 13.7

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

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Heart-Lung Transplantation

Ethnicity/Race Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total Patients 62 46 51 46 27 32 28 38 34
Deaths 25 21 21 17 7 12 14 10 8
Rate 636.3 723.1 617.3 509.6 335.1 546.4 856.6 333.9 289.5
White Patients 45 39 47 37 22 26 19 27 23
Deaths 19 17 19 13 7 10 10 6 7
Rate 704.4 702.2 594.6 477.0 440.5 597.5 954.8 269.9 409.6
African American Patients 6 4 1 3 3 1 4 2 6
Deaths 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 1
Rate * * * * * * * * *
Hispanic/Latino Patients 7 3 3 5 2 1 5 6 3
Deaths 2 3 2 2 0 0 3 2 0
Rate * * * * * * * * *
Asian Patients 4 - - 1 - - - 2 2
Deaths 1 - - 1 - - - 0 0
Rate * - - * - - - * *
Other/Multi-race Patients - - - - - 4 - 1 -
Deaths - - - - - 1 - 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.

Multi-organ transplants are excluded.

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.