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Table 2 Cause of death/alive grouped by patients with or without invasive aspergillosis up until their final chemotherapy cycle

From: Effect of invasive aspergillosis on risk for different causes of death in older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome

Cause of death/Alive

With IA, n (%)

Without IA, n (%)

Total, n (%)

Total (known)

131 (100)

675 (100)

806 (100)

Leukaemia

59 (45)

321 (47.6)

380 (47.1)

Pneumonitis

10 (7.6)

22 (3.3)

32 (4)

Infection

31 (23.7)

115 (17)

146 (18.1)

Haemorrhage

5 (3.8)

30 (4.4)

35 (4.3)

Veno-occlusive disease

1 (0.8)

1 (0.1)

2 (0.2)

Secondary malignancy

1 (0.8)

9 (1.3)

10 (1.2)

Other

9 (6.9)

61 (9)

70 (8.7)

Unknown

5 (3.8)

30 (4.4)

35 (4.3)

Alive

10 (7.6)

86 (12.7)

96 (11.9)

  1. The variables ‘infection’ and ‘other cause of death (COD)’ were grouped together (‘infection and other COD’), because ‘other COD’ included 12/70 patients with infection as one of the CODs as well. The variables ‘pneumonitis’, ‘haemorrhage’, ‘veno-occlusive disease’, ‘secondary malignancy’ and ‘unknown’ were group together as ‘miscellaneous’, because of the relatively small number of patients in all categories