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Table 13.7

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 1999 to 2007

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Heart-Lung Transplantation

Life Support Status		Year of Transplant
Life Support Status		1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	Patients	51	46	27	32	28	38	34	31	31
	Deaths	21	17	7	12	14	10	8	9	3
	Rate	617.3	509.6	335.1	546.4	856.6	333.9	289.5	376.3	103.3
Not on Life Support	Patients	29	34	16	15	14	28	25	25	24
	Deaths	10	11	4	4	5	6	4	6	3
	Rate	488.6	433.3	327.1	347.0	513.4	263.9	181.7	287.9	136.2
On Life Support	Patients	21	12	11	17	14	10	9	6	7
	Deaths	10	6	3	8	9	4	4	3	0
	Rate	738.1	752.4	346.4	766.7	1,362.7	554.6	*	*	*
Unknown	Patients	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Deaths	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	Rate	*	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

(-) = None in category.

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

Multi-organ transplants are excluded.

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.

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