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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Feb 21;23(3):e13379. doi: 10.1111/petr.13379

Table 2.

Characteristics of linked patients by organ transplanted

Heart
N=3,046
Small Bowel
N=305
Heart Lung
N=45
Lung
N=577
Liver
N=4,714
Kidney
N=4,701

Age
   <1 year 933 (30.6%) 52 (17.1%) 5 (10.9%) 50 (8.7%) 1294 (27.5%) 2 (<0.1%)
   1–5 years 729 (23.9%) 159 (52.1%) 7 (15.2%) 81 (14%) 1796 (38.1%) 888 (18.9%)
   6–10 years 431 (14.2%) 46 (15.1%) 4 (8.7%) 103 (17.9%) 656 (13.9%) 827 (17.6%)
   11–17 years 876 (28.8%) 40 (13.1%) 29 (63%) 317 (54.9%) 920 (19.5%) 2548 (54.2%)
   18–21 years 77 (2.5%) 8 (2.6%) 1 (2.2%) 26 (4.5%) 48 (1%) 436 (9.3%)
Male sex 1657 (54.4%) 177 (58%) 22 (48.9%) 247 (42.8%) 2334 (49.5%) 2749 (58.5%)
Race
   Caucasian 1798 (59%) 207 (67.9%) 34 (75.6%) 409 (70.9%) 2663 (56.5%) 2131 (45.3%)
   African American 561 (18.4%) 48 (15.7%) 2 (4.4%) 40 (6.9%) 636 (13.5%) 852 (18.1%)
   Hispanic 513 (16.8%) 41 (13.4%) 8 (17.8%) 101 (17.5%) 990 (21%) 1421 (30.2%)
   Other 174 (5.7%) 9 (3%) 1 (2.2%) 27 (4.7%) 425 (9%) 297 (6.3%)
Blood type
   O 1377 (45.2%) 142 (46.6%) 17 (37.8%) 250 (43.3%) 2283 (48.4%) 2386 (51.3%)
   A 1148 (37.7%) 108 (35.4%) 22 (48.9%) 220 (38.1%) 1612 (34.2%) 1529 (32.9%)
   B 393 (12.9%) 38 (12.5%) 3 (6.7%) 79 (13.7%) 622 (13.2%) 593 (12.7%)
   AB 128 (4.2%) 17 (5.6%) 3 (6.7%) 28 (4.9%) 197 (4.2%) 143 (3.1%)
Era
   2002–2009 1366 (44.8%) 212 (69.5%) 25 (55.6%) 289 (50.1%) 1939 (41.1%) 1789 (38.1%)
   2010–2018* 1680 (55.2%) 93 (30.5%) 20 (44.4%) 288 (49.9%) 2775 (58.9%) 2912 (61.9%)
Diagnosis
CM 1404 (46.6%) Short gut 203 (66.6%) PHN 28 (62.2%) CF 286 (49.6%) Biliary atresia 1796 (38.1%) Congenital 1870 (39.8%)
CHD 1439 (47.8%) FBD 68 (22.3%) CHD 10 (22.2%) PHN 109 (18.9%) Metabolic 723 (15.3%) Glomerular 1198 (25.5%)
ReTx 168 (5.5%) Other 34 (11.1%) Other 7 (15.6%) Other 182 (31.5%) Hepatic failure 530 (11.2%) Tubular/interstitial 365 (7.8%)
Other 35 (1.1%) Malignancy 439 (9.3%) Familial/genetic 362 (7.7%)
Cirrhosis 285 (6%) Other 906 (19.3%)
Other 941 (20%)

Abbreviations: CF – Cystic fibrosis; CHD – Congenital heart disease; CM – Cardiomyopathy; FBD – Functional bowel disorder; PHN – Pulmonary hypertension; ReTx – Retransplant

*

Era 2 includes 2010 – 2018 for all groups except heart transplant (2010 – 2016)