Table 1.6

Reported Deaths and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk

Waiting List, 1998 to 2007

Organ Type		Year
Organ Type		1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Heart-Lung	Patients	354	347	328	299	290	260	260	223	207	182
	Deaths	43	55	46	42	42	20	29	28	21	22
	Rate	188.1	242.9	223.8	203.6	210.0	109.1	162.8	181.6	153.5	195.4
Heart	Patients	7,598	7,446	7,191	7,144	6,912	6,523	6,204	5,883	5,836	5,779
	Deaths	864	804	686	718	632	586	526	469	436	374
	Rate	220.4	199.1	177.3	183.1	167.2	166.5	159.8	156.3	155.3	141.8
Intestine	Patients	211	212	247	320	349	356	393	453	491	503
	Deaths	48	47	27	44	52	48	56	58	55	49
	Rate	583.2	495.9	254.0	318.8	315.8	306.4	323.7	324.1	263.6	226.5
Kidney	Patients	53,315	57,055	60,537	64,161	68,173	71,798	76,820	82,369	88,753	94,741
	Deaths	2,528	3,318	3,128	3,370	3,730	3,855	4,038	4,141	4,452	4,452
	Rate	69.1	84.0	73.7	73.6	76.8	74.9	73.4	70.5	70.3	64.8
Kidney-Pancreas	Patients	2,891	3,334	3,849	3,961	3,949	3,895	3,946	3,993	3,968	3,780
	Deaths	108	169	198	227	223	208	223	208	233	211
	Rate	70.2	93.8	89.4	95.5	93.5	89.8	95.9	88.2	98.6	93.4
Liver	Patients	17,379	20,568	22,959	25,214	25,914	25,623	26,297	26,580	26,720	26,558
	Deaths	1,567	2,018	2,017	2,319	2,157	2,096	2,161	2,141	1,974	1,816
	Rate	160.0	166.2	142.6	143.1	131.5	129.3	131.2	130.0	121.0	113.0
Lung	Patients	4,527	4,868	5,142	5,374	5,399	5,549	5,650	5,269	4,801	4,678
	Deaths	518	599	519	532	529	489	512	397	295	317
	Rate	185.0	190.6	152.8	149.2	145.1	131.6	135.0	115.2	101.7	125.8
All Organs	Patients	84,437	92,645	99,753	106,181	110,824	113,778	119,385	124,469	130,266	135,568
	Deaths	5,462	6,758	6,502	7,114	7,177	7,110	7,334	7,225	7,245	7,061
	Rate	109.1	120.2	105.3	109.6	111.7	105.5	104.6	100.2	95.5	89.0
Pancreas After Kidney	Patients	315	469	770	1,026	1,218	1,324	1,490	1,432	1,400	1,345
	Deaths	5	5	10	16	18	16	26	24	30	20
	Rate	31.3	25.0	26.4	28.1	24.9	19.1	27.8	24.5	31.0	21.6
Pancreas Transplant Alone	Patients	429	483	499	617	667	706	795	853	904	963
	Deaths	16	9	7	19	13	19	25	33	27	37
	Rate	67.3	35.4	25.5	54.6	33.4	45.6	52.9	65.1	49.2	63.2

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

Patients alive on the waiting list at any time during the year are counted. Period at risk begins

the later of January 1 or waiting list registration and ends on the earlier of December 31, date of death, or date of removal for other reasons. Please see Technical Notes for further details about death rate computation.

Patients who were waiting for multiple organs in a given year are counted in each organ section, but only once in the "All Organs" section.