Table 7.7

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

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Pancreas After Kidney (PAK) Transplantation

Ethnicity/Race Year of Transplant
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total Patients 130 155 218 301 302 374 344 419 342
Deaths 7 11 11 13 13 16 17 17 8
Rate 55.7 74.8 52.1 44.2 43.8 43.9 50.7 41.4 23.8
White Patients 118 147 199 274 254 319 299 367 282
Deaths 7 11 10 13 11 13 16 14 7
Rate 61.5 79.1 52.0 48.7 44.1 41.8 55.0 38.8 25.3
African American Patients 10 7 12 15 27 29 21 23 34
Deaths 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 3 1
Rate 0.0 * 86.7 0.0 76.3 71.2 0.0 144.6 29.7
Hispanic/Latino Patients 1 1 3 11 16 22 16 25 22
Deaths 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
Rate * * * 0.0 0.0 46.9 66.2 0.0 0.0
Asian Patients 1 - - - 2 3 4 3 2
Deaths 0 - - - 0 0 0 0 0
Rate * - - - * * * * *
Other/Multi-race Patients - - 4 1 3 1 4 1 2
Deaths - - 0 0 0 0 0 0 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.