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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

Ethnicity/Race 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
White Patients 37 22 26 19 27 23 22 24 16
Deaths 13 7 10 10 6 7 9 2 6
Rate 477.0 440.5 597.5 954.8 269.9 409.6 603.1 86.8 508.5
African American Patients 3 3 1 4 2 6 2 4 1
Deaths 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1
Rate * * * * * * * * *
Other/Multi-race Patients - - 4 - 1 - - - 1
Deaths - - 1 - 0 - - - 0
Rate - - * - * - - - *
Asian Patients 1 - - - 2 2 5 - 4
Deaths 1 - - - 0 0 0 - 0
Rate * - - - * * * - *
Hispanic/Latino Patients 5 2 1 5 6 3 2 3 4
Deaths 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 1 2
Rate * * * * * * * * *


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.