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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

Primary Diagnosis Year of Transplant
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
Congenital Disease Patients 20 21 10 9 11 10 8 6 3
Deaths 7 7 2 5 6 3 3 3 1
Rate 491.2 480.7 249.7 * 870.9 413.1 * * *
Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients 10 8 7 13 5 11 9 10 7
Deaths 3 2 1 4 0 2 1 2 1
Rate 426.7 * * 438.7 * 198.2 * 247.8 *
Cystic Fibrosis Patients 1 - - 1 1 1 1 1 2
Deaths 1 - - 0 1 0 0 0 0
Rate * - - * * * * * *
Emphysema/COPD Patients 3 3 - - - 1 - 1 -
Deaths 1 1 - - - 0 - 1 -
Rate * * - - - * - * -
Other Patients 3 2 4 - 3 7 6 3 7
Deaths 2 2 2 - 1 3 2 0 0
Rate * * * - * * * * *
Unknown Patients 14 12 6 9 8 8 10 10 12
Deaths 7 5 2 3 6 2 2 3 1
Rate 749.0 505.8 * * * * 228.2 381.0 83.5


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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