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Table 5.7b

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

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

Ethnicity/Race Year of Transplant
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Patients 1,170 1,188 1,270 1,442 1,524 1,727 1,756 1,792 1,877
Deaths 110 124 118 140 143 167 152 122 124
Rate 99.3 111.7 99.0 103.3 99.3 102.4 91.6 70.9 68.7
White Patients 616 631 637 712 713 847 876 854 844
Deaths 63 68 62 69 74 70 83 69 69
Rate 108.4 115.4 104.4 103.6 109.8 86.8 100.6 84.6 85.6
African American Patients 352 352 410 480 447 525 569 567 599
Deaths 31 34 38 54 37 51 49 34 31
Rate 93.1 102.9 98.7 120.2 87.7 102.9 91.7 62.3 53.5
Other/Multi-race Patients 14 16 13 15 37 31 20 24 30
Deaths 2 2 1 1 3 5 1 2 0
Rate 151.7 131.1 77.9 69.2 86.8 182.6 52.5 87.3 0.0
Asian Patients 77 68 76 91 112 121 123 128 132
Deaths 2 10 10 8 8 13 5 8 6
Rate 26.2 164.5 143.8 93.6 75.3 114.5 41.5 65.5 46.8
Hispanic/Latino Patients 111 121 134 144 215 203 168 219 272
Deaths 12 10 7 8 21 28 14 9 18
Rate 115.9 87.5 53.5 57.2 103.2 149.5 87.4 42.1 69.3


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.