Table 8.7

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

Rates for Recipients in First Year after Kidney-Pancreas Transplants

Blood Type		Year of Transplant
		1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Patients	746	910	847	841	967	931	907	886	902
	Deaths	65	57	51	43	59	47	44	51	45
	Rate	92.7	65.0	62.7	53.0	63.8	52.4	50.2	60.1	51.7
O	Patients	363	428	390	425	455	422	401	390	401
	Deaths	21	24	20	23	26	22	23	24	21
	Rate	60.2	58.0	53.3	56.5	59.8	54.1	60.0	64.2	54.4
A	Patients	271	333	344	320	369	363	361	351	369
	Deaths	30	28	23	17	23	18	17	21	17
	Rate	120.1	88.5	69.6	54.8	65.0	51.6	48.7	62.7	47.5
B	Patients	86	110	82	66	104	102	114	110	100
	Deaths	9	4	7	3	7	4	4	4	3
	Rate	112.4	37.0	90.0	46.9	69.7	40.0	35.6	37.5	30.6
AB	Patients	26	39	31	30	39	44	31	35	32
	Deaths	5	1	1	0	3	3	0	2	4
	Rate	224.5	26.2	33.2	0.0	83.0	71.3	0.0	59.8	138.1

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.