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Table 12.4a

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1998 to 2007

Recipients of Deceased Donor Lungs

Recipient Ethnicity/Race	Year of Transplant
Recipient Ethnicity/Race	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	840	864	941	1,034	1,029	1,070	1,157	1,405	1,401	1,465
White	761	779	844	918	913	928	997	1,217	1,194	1,230
African American	41	52	67	87	62	71	88	109	123	123
Other/Multi-race	4	4	3	1	5	4	5	8	7	11
Asian	8	5	2	6	8	18	9	17	14	15
Hispanic/Latino	26	24	25	22	41	47	58	54	63	86
Unknown	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	90.6%	90.2%	89.7%	88.8%	88.7%	86.7%	86.2%	86.6%	85.2%	84.0%
African American	4.9%	6.0%	7.1%	8.4%	6.0%	6.6%	7.6%	7.8%	8.8%	8.4%
Other/Multi-race	0.5%	0.5%	0.3%	0.1%	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	0.6%	0.5%	0.8%
Asian	1.0%	0.6%	0.2%	0.6%	0.8%	1.7%	0.8%	1.2%	1.0%	1.0%
Hispanic/Latino	3.1%	2.8%	2.7%	2.1%	4.0%	4.4%	5.0%	3.8%	4.5%	5.9%
Unknown	-	-	-	-	-	0.2%	-	-	-	-

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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than heart-lung, in which a deceased donor lung was one of the organs transplanted.

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