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Table 9.6i

Immunosuppression Use for Antirejection Treatment from Transplant

to One Year Following Transplantation, 1999 to 2008

Recipients with Liver Transplants

  Year of Transplant
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Transplants 4,755 5,001 5,195 5,332 5,673 6,171 6,444 6,651 6,494 6,319
Tx with Antirejection Treatments 1,468 1,498 1,417 1,299 1,040 994 1,035 820 728 641
Antibodies Any in Category 12.5% 14.5% 16.7% 17.6% 17.8% 21.1% 14.9% 15.1% 17.2% 14.0%
Atgam/NRATG/NRATS 0.7% 0.5% 0.5% 0.6% 0.8% 0.8% 1.1% 0.5% 0.5% 0.3%
OKT3 6.8% 6.2% 6.7% 5.9% 5.4% 5.8% 4.5% 3.7% 6.0% 2.2%
Thymoglobulin 1.4% 3.2% 5.2% 5.6% 7.0% 11.3% 7.5% 8.8% 9.5% 10.1%
Zenapax 1.7% 2.4% 1.6% 1.9% 1.3% 3.2% 0.8% 0.9% 1.0% 1.1%
Simulect 3.1% 3.1% 4.2% 4.0% 3.0% 0.8% 0.9% 0.7% 0.4% 0.2%
Campath 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.6% 2.0% 1.4% 1.0% 1.3% 1.6% 0.9%
Corticosteroids Any in Category 89.5% 90.9% 89.1% 90.3% 91.6% 88.7% 91.5% 92.3% 92.7% 95.6%
Steroids 89.5% 90.9% 89.1% 90.3% 91.6% 88.7% 91.5% 92.3% 92.7% 95.6%
Antimetabolites Any in Category 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.3% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
Cytoxan 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.2% 0.1% 0.1% 0.2%
Methotrexate 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%


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

Individual drug percentages will not necessarily add up to the drug category percentages, as patients may

be prescribed more than one drug within the same category.