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Table 13.7

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 2000 to 2008

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Heart-Lung Transplantation

Blood Type Year of Transplant
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Patients 46 27 32 28 38 34 31 31 26
Deaths 17 7 12 14 10 8 9 3 9
Rate 509.6 335.1 546.4 856.6 333.9 289.5 376.2 103.3 478.4
A Patients 15 14 11 15 9 18 13 14 13
Deaths 3 2 3 8 1 5 5 2 3
Rate 232.2 166.5 357.3 990.3 * 367.3 515.9 154.1 286.1
AB Patients 2 2 2 3 1 2 4 1 1
Deaths 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Rate * * * * * * * * *
B Patients 4 1 5 3 9 1 2 3 5
Deaths 2 0 4 0 3 0 1 0 2
Rate * * * * * * * * *
O Patients 25 10 14 7 19 13 12 13 7
Deaths 11 4 4 5 6 3 3 1 4
Rate 654.1 581.7 356.0 * 431.2 272.3 325.3 83.0 *


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

(-) = 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.