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Table 13.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 2000 to 2009

Heart-Lung Recipients

Recipient Ethnicity/Race	Year of Transplant
Recipient Ethnicity/Race	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	48	27	33	29	40	35	31	31	27	29
White	39	22	27	20	29	24	22	24	17	13
African American	3	3	1	4	2	6	2	4	1	9
Other/Multi-race	-	-	4	-	1	-	-	-	1	1
Asian	1	-	-	-	2	2	5	-	4	2
Hispanic/Latino	5	2	1	5	6	3	2	3	4	4
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	81.3%	81.5%	81.8%	69.0%	72.5%	68.6%	71.0%	77.4%	63.0%	44.8%
African American	6.3%	11.1%	3.0%	13.8%	5.0%	17.1%	6.5%	12.9%	3.7%	31.0%
Other/Multi-race	-	-	12.1%	-	2.5%	-	-	-	3.7%	3.4%
Asian	2.1%	-	-	-	5.0%	5.7%	16.1%	-	14.8%	6.9%
Hispanic/Latino	10.4%	7.4%	3.0%	17.2%	15.0%	8.6%	6.5%	9.7%	14.8%	13.8%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of October 1, 2010.

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants in which a heart and a lung were among

the organs transplanted.