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Table 9.7a

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

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation

Ethnicity/Race		Year of Transplant
Ethnicity/Race		1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	Patients	4,337	4,384	4,452	4,692	5,040	5,450	5,667	5,836	5,622
	Deaths	715	675	704	672	754	754	839	797	647
	Rate	189.2	174.7	178.8	159.3	167.3	153.1	164.9	150.2	125.1
White	Patients	3,287	3,265	3,296	3,396	3,666	3,932	4,087	4,124	3,985
	Deaths	531	476	540	477	543	534	595	572	470
	Rate	184.8	163.9	186.3	156.0	165.4	149.9	161.5	152.6	128.6
African American	Patients	377	386	387	438	479	535	531	612	526
	Deaths	75	83	57	60	97	87	91	93	58
	Rate	234.8	257.4	163.7	151.0	235.7	183.4	194.0	168.5	119.3
Other/Multi-race	Patients	31	35	23	27	48	42	58	61	43
	Deaths	5	6	5	7	2	6	10	9	5
	Rate	176.8	199.7	267.2	318.8	43.3	154.1	201.3	162.1	127.0
Asian	Patients	170	144	186	231	210	270	259	252	311
	Deaths	28	24	28	32	26	33	44	23	31
	Rate	188.0	192.3	168.1	154.6	134.5	135.6	195.4	97.6	107.6
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	472	554	560	600	637	671	732	787	757
	Deaths	76	86	74	96	86	94	99	100	83
	Rate	185.9	177.9	146.2	179.4	149.9	155.9	150.1	139.5	118.3

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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