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Table 1.5

Time to Transplant

New Waiting List Registrations, 1998 to 2007

  Year of Waiting List Registration
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Kidney Number of Registrations 20,173 21,001 22,284 22,337 23,484 24,414 27,122 29,132 31,494 32,843
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 106 106 113 115 107 107 111 108 106 121
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 323 314 338 348 339 354 358 343 359 422
Median TT (Days) 1,153 1,127 1,203 1,180 1,146 1,152 1,219 + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 1,117 1,096 1,170 1,144 1,115 1,121 1,183 + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 1,183 1,163 1,240 1,215 1,180 1,187 1,259 + + +
Pancreas Transplant Alone Number of Registrations 217 219 266 336 302 324 362 372 408 392
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 24 15 8 24 16 12 18 18 24 13
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 87 55 49 108 57 57 85 82 108 75
Median TT (Days) 298 190 290 751 300 348 376 356 436 260
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 195 139 220 450 194 254 293 252 338 225
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 449 279 475 + 532 478 612 619 + 438
Pancreas After Kidney Number of Registrations 179 308 523 613 596 593 623 517 473 385
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 14 24 29 51 37 47 33 36 47 86
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 54 67 92 139 124 142 138 164 190 279
Median TT (Days) 218 219 463 551 594 500 562 751 + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 154 188 368 462 456 416 443 591 + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 335 296 617 656 732 634 798 + + +
Kidney-Pancreas Number of Registrations 1,535 1,805 2,007 1,788 1,743 1,644 1,729 1,785 1,671 1,622
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 48 64 68 65 63 62 48 48 45 47
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 147 176 224 179 180 176 149 134 132 136
Median TT (Days) 404 448 543 492 471 453 428 451 444 448
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 380 420 507 456 430 408 396 411 403 370
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 440 480 588 539 509 512 480 481 497 +
Liver Number of Registrations 9,538 10,521 10,881 11,126 9,646 10,325 10,854 10,985 11,036 11,081
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 24 28 28 29 14 10 8 8 8 8
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 151 186 193 168 80 56 43 38 36 40
Median TT (Days) 839 1,745 + + 981 564 400 296 286 361
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 771 1,431 + + 842 498 355 278 259 310
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 937 2,175 + + 1,123 649 445 329 317 472
Intestine Number of Registrations 152 149 170 219 203 205 250 284 317 281
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 19 28 31 26 36 34 27 16 20 12
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 99 87 100 82 101 89 72 50 64 33
Median TT (Days) 496 313 276 319 310 289 212 232 257 159
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 191 219 174 185 255 201 182 158 190 107
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound + 520 464 488 999 443 334 404 399 234
Heart Number of Registrations 3,939 3,542 3,448 3,400 3,230 2,939 2,881 2,833 3,034 3,110
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 24 18 15 14 14 14 12 10 9 8
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 74 73 57 51 46 44 38 33 26 25
Median TT (Days) 373 359 327 264 230 209 166 130 110 113
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 321 314 290 232 207 181 153 120 100 104
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 426 411 368 300 259 233 184 149 124 126
Lung Number of Registrations 2,084 1,990 1,974 2,032 1,887 1,953 1,999 1,562 1,774 1,957
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 121 139 110 86 80 87 45 18 9 11
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 369 450 360 284 250 240 184 54 31 35
Median TT (Days) 1,105 2,897 1,663 1,224 1,057 924 792 199 132 141
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound 977 1,515 1,233 988 877 768 666 176 114 127
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound 1,364 + + 1,983 1,296 1,157 965 228 151 157
Heart-Lung Number of Registrations 137 109 116 106 88 69 78 58 77 50
10th Percentile of TT (Days) 58 109 237 112 48 77 44 50 17 18
25th Percentile of TT (Days) 481 402 + 534 409 225 284 100 142 89
Median TT (Days) + + + + + + + + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Lower Bound + + + + + + + + + +
Median TT 95% C.I. Upper Bound + + + + + + + + + +


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2008.

(+) = Not determined due to insufficient follow-up; fewer than this percentile have transplanted.

TT = Time to Transplant in days.

This table takes a cohort of waiting list registrations and shows how long it takes for 10%, 25%, and 50%

(the median) of those patients to be transplanted. These tables take the point of view of a patient who has just

been registered on a waiting list and take into account all of the things that can happen to the patient after wait listing, including receiving a transplant, being removed from the waiting list, and dying.

See Technical Notes for a full discussion of the methods used for this table.



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