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Table 5.7a

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

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Deceased Donor non-ECD Kidney Transplantation

Hospitalized at Tx Year of Transplant
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Patients 6,790 6,884 7,017 6,946 7,506 7,784 8,460 8,293 8,227
Deaths 390 312 324 310 316 339 329 292 264
Rate 59.6 46.7 47.5 45.9 43.2 44.7 39.8 36.0 32.7
Not Hospitalized Patients 6,695 6,738 6,880 6,821 7,398 7,705 8,368 8,175 8,126
Deaths 377 304 313 297 308 333 323 280 257
Rate 58.4 46.5 46.8 44.7 42.7 44.4 39.5 35.0 32.3
Hospitalized Patients 76 135 129 117 90 65 77 95 93
Deaths 8 7 10 11 5 4 6 8 7
Rate 113.6 53.6 81.5 98.0 58.1 64.0 82.4 90.5 78.6
In Intensive Care Patients 18 10 8 8 16 14 15 18 8
Deaths 5 1 1 2 2 2 0 4 0
Rate 365.6 110.7 * * 130.0 166.2 0.0 279.2 *
Unknown Patients 1 1 - - 2 - - 5 -
Deaths 0 0 - - 1 - - 0 -
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.

Donors are divided into two mutually exclusive and complete categories. All donors meeting the criteria

for Expanded Criteria Donors for Kidney are classified as ECD, regardless of whether the kidneys were

allocated under the ECD system. Non-ECDs include all other donors, including SCDs and DCDs.