Table 2.

Number of graft failures, deaths, and folow-up rates during each examination interval^*

Examination	No. known to have failed during previous interval	No. known to have died during previous interval	No. presumed alive without failure	No. examined (% of no. presumed alive without failure)
Preoperative	–	–	394	394 (100)
Postoperative
2 mo	19	2	373	355 (95)
1 yr	10	8†	357	329 (92)
3 yr	17	10‡	331	231 (70)
5 yr	11	11†	311	187 (60)
10 yr	11	51§¶	257	119 (46)
15 yr	8	25¶	224#	67 (30)

^*This table has been modified from that published at 10 years after surgery³ because patients with failed grafts who subsequently died had inadvertently been counted twice.

^†Two deaths were also graft failures in a previous interval.

^‡One patient with graft failure also died in the same interval.

^§Two patients with graft failure also died in the same interval.

^¶Six deaths were also failures in a previous interval.

^#Six patients withdrew research authorization.