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Table 2.8

Living Donor Characteristics, 2000 to 2009

Living Donors of Any Organ

Donor Status Year
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total 5,946 6,619 6,630 6,828 7,004 6,902 6,732 6,315 6,218 6,610
Alive 3,303 4,284 4,715 4,824 4,105 4,265 4,075 4,709 5,188 5,957
Lost to followup 2,636 2,330 1,910 1,996 2,891 2,631 2,643 1,601 1,025 648
Unknown - - - - 1 1 4 2 - -
Dead 7 5 5 8 7 5 10 3 5 5
Alive 55.5% 64.7% 71.1% 70.7% 58.6% 61.8% 60.5% 74.6% 83.4% 90.1%
Lost to followup 44.3% 35.2% 28.8% 29.2% 41.3% 38.1% 39.3% 25.4% 16.5% 9.8%
Unknown - - - - 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% - -
Dead 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.1%
Expected Deaths for these donors 10.0 12.4 13.2 13.4 12.0 12.8 12.9 15.4 17.5 19.5
Donor Hospitalized 156 215 184 179 156 126 171 187 236 173


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

(%) = Percentages are calculated based on totals including missing and unknown cases.

(-) = None in category.

Living donor ages reported as 11 years or less are included in 'Unknown', accounting for about 0.01 percent of the data.

Expected deaths are based on death rates found among people in the general U.S. population with the same age and sex as the

living donors.