Table 5.7c

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 1994 to 2002

Rates for Recipients in First Year after Living Donor Kidney Transplants

Gender		Year of Transplant
		1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Patients	3,007	3,383	3,662	3,925	4,408	4,697	5,449	6,011	6,236
	Deaths	68	95	82	103	101	108	136	158	142
	Rate	22.9	28.6	22.8	26.7	23.2	23.3	25.3	26.7	23.1
Female	Patients	1,271	1,442	1,542	1,638	1,896	1,945	2,305	2,503	2,575
	Deaths	15	32	39	53	43	36	56	59	58
	Rate	11.9	22.5	25.7	33.0	23.0	18.8	24.6	23.9	22.8
Male	Patients	1,736	1,941	2,120	2,287	2,512	2,752	3,144	3,508	3,661
	Deaths	53	63	43	50	58	72	80	99	84
	Rate	31.1	33.2	20.6	22.2	23.4	26.6	25.8	28.7	23.3

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 3, 2004.

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.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = For cohorts with fewer than 10 patients, rates are imprecise and are not reported.