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Table 13.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Heart-Lung Recipients

Primary Diagnosis Year of Transplant
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total 51 48 27 33 29 40 35 31 31 27
Congenital Disease 20 21 10 10 11 11 8 6 3 3
Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 10 8 7 13 5 12 10 10 7 9
Cystic Fibrosis 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 2 -
Emphysema/COPD 3 3 - - - 1 - 1 - -
Other 3 2 4 - 3 7 6 3 7 3
Unknown 14 13 6 9 9 8 10 10 12 12
Total (%) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Congenital Disease 39.2% 43.8% 37.0% 30.3% 37.9% 27.5% 22.9% 19.4% 9.7% 11.1%
Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 19.6% 16.7% 25.9% 39.4% 17.2% 30.0% 28.6% 32.3% 22.6% 33.3%
Cystic Fibrosis 2.0% 2.1% - 3.0% 3.4% 2.5% 2.9% 3.2% 6.5% -
Emphysema/COPD 5.9% 6.3% - - - 2.5% - 3.2% - -
Other 5.9% 4.2% 14.8% - 10.3% 17.5% 17.1% 9.7% 22.6% 11.1%
Unknown 27.5% 27.1% 22.2% 27.3% 31.0% 20.0% 28.6% 32.3% 38.7% 44.4%


Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants in which a heart and a lung were among the organs transplanted.



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