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Volume 31, Number 5—May 2025
Synopsis

Comprehensive Survival Analysis of Alveolar Echinococcosis Patients, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1973–2022

Ansgar Deibel1Comments to Author , Yanick Kindler1, Rubens Mita, Soleen Ghafoor, Cordula Meyer zu Schwabedissen, Barbara Brunner-Geissmann, Alexander Schweiger, Felix Grimm, Michael Reinehr, Achim Weber, Cäcilia S. Reiner, Andreas E. Kremer, Henrik Petrowsky, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Peter Deplazes, Stefanie von Felten, and Beat Müllhaupt
Author affiliation: University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (A. Deibel, Y. Kindler, S. Ghafoor, C. Meyer zu Schwabedissen, B. Brunner-Geissmann, M. Reinehr, A. Weber, C.S. Reiner, A.E. Kremer, H. Petrowsky, P.-A. Clavien, B. Müllhaupt); University of Zurich, Zurich (R. Mita, F. Grimm, P. Deplazes, S. von Felten); Cantonal Hospital Zug, Zug, Switzerland (A. Schweiger)

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Table 1

Baseline characteristics of alveolar echinococcosis patients, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 1973–2022*

Baseline characteristics Value
No. patients
 334
Age at diagnosis, y, median (IQR)
 57.5 (44.0–65.8)
Sex
M 142 (42.5)
F
 192 (57.5)
World Health Organization diagnosis criteria
Possible 4 (1.2)
Probable 144 (43.1)
Definitive
 186 (55.7)
Alveolar echinococcosis stage
I 93 (27.8)
II 42 (12.6)
IIIa 50 (15.0)
IIIb 74 (22.2)
IV 68 (20.4)
Unclassified
 7 (2.1)
Symptoms at diagnosis
Yes 201 (60.2)
No 127 (38.0)
Missing
 6 (1.8)
Complication at diagnosis
Biliary 46 (13.8)
Vascular 8 (2.4)
Infectious 6 (1.8)
Missing 1 (0.3)

*Values are no. (%) except as indicated.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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