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

PRA at Transplant		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
0%-9%	Patients	887	1,108	1,280	1,472	1,637	1,801	2,324	2,750	2,913
	Deaths	22	33	31	40	41	45	55	76	74
	Rate	25.2	30.4	24.7	27.7	25.4	25.4	24.0	28.1	25.8
10%-79%	Patients	109	146	142	147	156	169	223	229	312
	Deaths	2	5	3	4	3	7	4	10	10
	Rate	18.6	35.2	21.4	27.8	19.4	42.8	18.1	44.9	32.6
80%+	Patients	11	23	22	21	19	24	33	44	46
	Deaths	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	7	2
	Rate	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	87.4	62.4	176.9	45.2
Unknown	Patients	2,000	2,106	2,218	2,285	2,596	2,703	2,869	2,988	2,965
	Deaths	44	57	48	59	57	54	75	65	56
	Rate	22.3	27.6	22.0	26.3	22.3	20.2	26.5	22.0	19.1

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.