Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1993 to 2002

Heart Recipients

Recipient Blood Type	Year of Transplant
	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	2,296	2,337	2,362	2,342	2,294	2,348	2,188	2,197	2,202	2,154
O	851	904	890	911	886	918	856	818	831	831
A	1,031	1,021	1,054	1,023	988	1,024	932	976	956	961
B	299	305	309	282	296	293	272	293	287	279
AB	114	107	109	126	124	113	128	110	128	83
Unknown	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
O	37.1%	38.7%	37.7%	38.9%	38.6%	39.1%	39.1%	37.2%	37.7%	38.6%
A	44.9%	43.7%	44.6%	43.7%	43.1%	43.6%	42.6%	44.4%	43.4%	44.6%
B	13.0%	13.1%	13.1%	12.0%	12.9%	12.5%	12.4%	13.3%	13.0%	13.0%
AB	5.0%	4.6%	4.6%	5.4%	5.4%	4.8%	5.9%	5.0%	5.8%	3.9%
Unknown	0.0%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2003.

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than heart-lung, in which a heart was one of

the organs transplanted.