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

Gender		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
Female	Patients	318	367	362	368	394	363	388	375	345
	Deaths	26	24	23	23	17	18	16	21	17
	Rate	86.6	68.1	66.3	65.2	44.8	51.4	42.5	58.2	50.8
Male	Patients	428	543	485	473	573	568	519	511	557
	Deaths	39	33	28	20	42	29	28	30	28
	Rate	97.3	63.0	59.9	43.6	77.0	53.0	56.0	61.5	52.2

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.